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SINGAPORE, Oct 20 (Reuters) – The dollar was within a hair’s breadth of the closely watched 150 yen level on Friday, buoyed by a surge in the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield which briefly reached 5% overnight for the first time since 2007.

The benchmark 10-year yield , which was last at 4.9456%, has climbed more than 30 basis points (bps) this week, driven by rising expectations that the Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates higher for longer and by mounting U.S. fiscal concerns.

“The move up has been driven by the Fed leaving the market as a price insensitive buyer. Foreign demand has also waned. Combined with surprisingly large issuance from the deficit, it’s a classic supply and demand effect,” said Brian Jacobsen, chief economist at Annex Wealth Management.

That kept pressure on the yen, which last bought 149.85 per dollar , not far from the psychological threshold of 150 per dollar which some traders bet could trigger an intervention from Japanese authorities, as happened last year.

The dollar/yen pair tends to closely track changes in long-term Treasury yields, particularly in the 10-year maturity.

Sterling was likewise 0.03% lower at $1.2135, though was some distance away from its two-week low of $1.2093 hit on Thursday.

In the broader currency market, the U.S. dollar edged higher, supported by elevated Treasury yields.

The dollar index gained 0.07% to 106.28, though was on track for a weekly loss of about 0.3%.

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At a closely-watched speech on Thursday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the strength of the U.S. economy and continued tight labour markets could require still tougher borrowing conditions to control inflation, though he added rising market interest rates could reduce the need for the central bank to act.

“The market seems to be more comfortable with the view that the Fed is going to pause, or at least pass on a rate rise out of the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 meeting,” said Ray Attrill, head of FX strategy at National Australia Bank.

“Obviously, he’s still not shutting the door to the prospect of higher rates, but there were a few words in Powell’s (speech) that I do think represent a little bit of a softening in the tone.”

Money markets are almost fully expecting the Fed to keep interest rates on hold at its upcoming policy meeting, compared to a roughly 94% chance a week ago, according to the CME FedWatch tool.

Elsewhere, the euro eased 0.06% to $1.0575, while the Australian dollar lost 0.21% to last stand at $0.63155.

The New Zealand dollar edged 0.35% lower to $0.5829, after having slid to an over 11-month low of $0.5816 on Thursday.

The kiwi was on track for a weekly loss of nearly 1%, further pressured by data earlier this week which showed New Zealand’s consumer inflation slowed to a two-year low in the third quarter.

In Asia, data on Friday showed Japan’s core inflation in September slowed below the 3% threshold for the first time in over a year but stayed above the central bank’s 2% target, though that did little to move the yen.

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China, meanwhile, kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged at the monthly fixing on Friday, matching market expectations, amid signs that parts of the wobbly economy may be slowly getting back on better footing.

“I do expect some more monetary easing going forward, specifically before year end,” said Carol Kong, a currency strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

“Even though we got that stronger-than-expected data dump and GDP earlier in the week, I think underneath the surface, the Chinese economy is still pretty fragile.”

Reporting by Rae Wee
Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Kim Coghill

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