Tokyo, June 19 (Jiji Press)--The dollar rose above 161 yen in Tokyo trading Friday, lifted by expectations for a U.S. interest rate hike. Yen selling accelerated on views that the interest rate gap between the United States and Japan would widen, despite the BOJ's decision

Dollar/Japanese yen: 160.65 Japanese yen per dollar (0.0062 dollar per Japanese yen)

HONG KONG, June 18 : The U.S. dollar rose to its highest in more than a year on Thursday after a hawkish hold from the Federal Reserve triggered bets on rate hikes, while yen…

The U.S. dollar reached a two-month high as markets anticipated Federal Reserve rate hikes, pressuring the Japanese yen towards intervention levels. Mounting inflation concerns…