SINGAPORE, Sept. 3 (MNI) - The U.S. dollar traded sideways within narrow ranges in Asia Friday, as players held their breath and waited for the release of tonight's U.S. non-farm payrolls data for August.

The FX market started the session with tinge of risk aversion this morning, although modest gains in some of the region's main stock markets managed to partly counter that, keeping major currency pairs confined near their opening levels.

By Courtney Tower

OTTAWA (MNI) - Canadians are out of step with the rest of the industrialized world, confidently buying new motor vehicles when sales in the United States and many other countries are falling.

SINGAPORE, Sept. 3 (MNI) - The U.S. dollar traded sideways within narrow ranges in Asia Friday, as players waited for the release of tonight's U.S. non-farm payrolls data for August.

The FX market started the session with tinge of risk aversion this morning, although modest gains in some of the region's main stock markets managed to partly counter that, keeping major currency pairs confined near their opening levels.

By Courtney Tower

OTTAWA (MNI) - Canadians are out of step with the rest of the industrialized world, confidently buying new motor vehicles when sales in the United States and many other countries are falling.

By Courtney Tower

OTTAWA (MNI) - Canadians are out of step with the rest of the industrialized world, confidently buying new motor vehicles when sales in the United States and many other countries are falling.

By Courtney Tower

OTTAWA (MNI) - Canadians are out of step with the rest of the industrialized world, confidently buying new motor vehicles when sales in the United States and many other countries are falling.

Source: U.S. Treasury Department Averages calculated by Market News International

Total Foreign Non- Bid/ amount Coupon add-on comps cover High % at Issue (Bln $) rate (Bln $) (Bln $) ratio Yield High

Average (Jan-97 to date) 0.120 2.29 2.432 58.50

Issue: September 15, 2010 Maturity: July 15, 2020

Interest Rate: 1.250 (coupon rate) CUSIP Number: 912828 NM 8 Amounts in millions of dollars: Public tenders 27962 Bid/cover ratio: 2.80 Tenders Accepted 10000

Yield awarded (high): 1.019 Price: 102.10918(adjusted price)

All competitive tenders at lower yields accepted; tenders at high yield allotted: 24.86%

Median: 0.940 Low: 0.845 (5% at or below low)