Forex Pros – The U.S. Dollar was higher against the Japanese Yen on Friday after the release of U.S. data on Nonfarm Payrolls.

USD/JPY was trading at 82.18, up 0.66% at time of writing.

The pair was likely to find support at 81.13, today’s low, and resistance at 82.46, today’s high.

Earlier in the day, official data showed that U.S. non-farm payrolls rose less-than-expected to a seasonally adjusted 36.00K last month, from 121.00K in the preceding month whose figure was revised up from 103.00K.

Analysts had expected U.S. non-farm payrolls to rise 150.00K last month.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Dollar was up against the Euro and the British Pound, with EUR/USD shedding 0.39% to hit 1.3581 and GBP/USD falling 0.17% to hit 1.6109.

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