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  • Dollar near 7-mth highs on steady growth

    05/27/2005 12:13:23 AM PDT · by Righty_McRight · 12 replies · 741+ views
    Reuters ^ | May 27, 2005 | Brent Kininmont
    TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar held near a seven-month high against the euro on Friday on solid U.S. growth figures and expectations that France would say "Non" to an EU constitution in an upcoming referendum. The U.S. currency was also in sight of seven-month peaks struck against sterling and the Swiss franc on Thursday when it got a boost from revised data showing the U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the first quarter. That compared with the government's previous estimate of 3.1 percent growth, though the revised figure was a tad lower than economists' forecasts....