Friday's dollar weakness pushed the yen up as much as 1.1%, a week after Japan and the US first intervened jointly since 1998.

NEW YORK, Aug 4 : The yen slipped on Tuesday but held on to most of its gains from last week's rare coordinated intervention by Tokyo and Washington.The Japanese currency had…

The coordinated involvement from the Treasury and BoJ had initially lifted the yen as low as 155 to the dollar, down from just above 163 beforehand.