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	  U.S. consumer confidence falls in April 

	  U.S. new home sales rise, beat forecasts 

	  Focus on BOJ meeting on Friday 

The safe-haven dollar and yen rose on Tuesday as market sentiment turned risk-averse amid renewed worries about the banking sector and the outlook for the global economy, which knocked the euro off a nearly 10-month high.

The U.S. dollar index =USD climbed 0.6% to 101.83, having dropped more than 4% since March 8. "Lower risk appetite is clearly the main driver here for the dollar and for other havens as well," said Shaun Osborne, chief FX strategist, at Scotiabank in Toronto.

"But we're not really breaking out in the dollar or extending significantly at this point. This is not a longer-term development, so we have to look at opportunities to fade the dollar rally," he added.

A weak consumer confidence report and a decline in Federal Reserve manufacturing data further added to the dollar's and yen's safe-haven appeal.

Data showed U.S. consumer confidence fell to a nine-month low in April, a survey showed on Tuesday. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index fell to 101.3 - the lowest since July 2022 - from a revised 104.0 in March.

The U.S. Richmond Fed manufacturing index slid as well, down at -10 in April, the fourth straight month of contraction.

Both surveys negated strong U.S. housing data, which showed new home sales beat estimates with a 9.6% rise in March to a one-year high of 683,000 after net revisions.

"The bias is for dollar weakness, but I think until U.S. data weakens substantially, it's hard to see that trend really picking up," said Vassili Serebriakov, FX strategist at UBS in New York.

News on Monday of plunging deposits at First Republic Bank FRC.N served as a reminder that stability risks have not entirely died down, while UBS UBSG.S reported a 52% slide in quarterly income.

The yen firmed, behaving like a typical safe haven, even as the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) new governor Kazuo Ueda signaled he was not in a hurry to shift policy. This week's BOJ meeting, which concludes on Friday, is his first in charge.

The Japanese currency JPY=EBS rose 0.6% to 133.495 per dollar and was up 1.2% at 146.42 per euro EURJPY=EBS , having earlier touched an eight-year low of 148.635.

The euro EUR=EBS dropped 0.7% against the dollar to $1.0969, having risen 1.2% so far in April and more than 4% since mid-March.

ECB board member Isabel Schnabel told Politico that a 50 basis point (bp) rate hike was not off the table and would depend on data - notably inflation figures due two days before May's meeting.

Elsewhere, sterling GBP=D3 was down 0.6% at $1.2403, but was close to a 10-month high of $1.2545 reached earlier this month.

The Australian dollar AUD=D3 dropped 1.1% to US$0.6621 as traders waited for inflation data due on Wednesday, while the New Zealand dollar NZD=D3 was at US$0.6138, down 0.5%.

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	Currency bid prices at 4:10PM (2010 GMT) 

 Description	  RIC		 Last		   U.S. Close  Pct Change	 YTD Pct	   High Bid	Low Bid 
											  Previous				   Change					
											  Session											  
 Dollar index	  =USD	   101.8300	   101.2500	+0.58%		 -1.604%	   +101.9500   +101.1900 
 Euro/Dollar	   EUR=EBS	$1.0973		$1.1046	 -0.65%		 +2.42%		+$1.1068	+$1.0965 
 Dollar/Yen		JPY=EBS	133.6150	   134.2550	-0.49%		 +1.90%		+134.4550   +133.3600 
 Euro/Yen		  EURJPY=	146.61		 148.26	  -1.11%		 +4.50%		+148.6100   +146.3000 
 Dollar/Swiss	  CHF=EBS	0.8919		 0.8876	  +0.50%		 -3.53%		+0.8927	 +0.8862 
 Sterling/Dollar   GBP=D3	 $1.2407		$1.2483	 -0.60%		 +2.60%		+$1.2507	+$1.2388 
 Dollar/Canadian   CAD=D3	 1.3629		 1.3541	  +0.66%		 +0.60%		+1.3647	 +1.3525 
 Aussie/Dollar	 AUD=D3	 $0.6624		$0.6696	 -1.09%		 -2.84%		+$0.6705	+$0.6614 
 Euro/Swiss		EURCHF=	0.9786		 0.9805	  -0.19%		 -1.10%		+0.9815	 +0.9777 
 Euro/Sterling	 EURGBP=	0.8843		 0.8844	  -0.01%		 -0.01%		+0.8876	 +0.8841 
 NZ				NZD=D3	 $0.6140		$0.6167	 -0.45%		 -3.31%		+$0.6187	+$0.6133 
 Dollar/Dollar																					 

 Dollar/Norway	 NOK=D3	 10.6850		10.5280	 +1.43%		 +8.81%		+10.7020	+10.5200 
 Euro/Norway	   EURNOK=	11.7293		11.6267	 +0.88%		 +11.77%	   +11.7366	+11.6066 
 Dollar/Sweden	 SEK=	   10.3121		10.2371	 -0.04%		 -0.92%		+10.3266	+10.2274 
 Euro/Sweden	   EURSEK=	11.3110		11.3156	 -0.04%		 +1.45%		+11.3435	+11.2934 
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