Urgent: U.S. dollar climbs on upbeat economic data

The U.S. dollar rose against most major currencies on Friday as the country's economic data came out overall positive, raising market expectation of an interest-rate hike this year.

In late New York trading, the euro declined to 1.1259 dollars from 1.1264 dollars in the previous session, while the dollar bought 123.46 Japanese yen, higher than 123.40 yen of the previous session. Endite