Dollar falls on Trump Jr emails

Reuters

Published Jul 11, 2017 12:23PM ET

Dollar falls on Trump Jr emails

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday after President Donald Trump's eldest son released an email chain, which referred to a top Russian government prosecutor as offering the Trump campaign damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

The dollar index (DXY), which tracks the greenback against six major rivals, turned negative on the day to trade down 0.04 percent to 95.984 after trading as high as 96.205 earlier in the session.

The dollar pared its gains against the Japanese yen and was up 0.17 percent to 114.22 yen.