In the currency buy, the dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of its peers, changed hands at 96.098, climbing from planes below 95.400 in the previous week.
The Japanese yen, considered a safe-haven currency, traded at 109.81 to the dollar, weakening from opens near 108.5 last week. The Australian dollar fetched $0.7155, dropping from an earlier session high-frequency of $0.7245.