Yen during trading showed the largest drop in the last two months against the dollar, after Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said he will dissolve parliament, paving the way for new vyborov.Takzhe negative impact on the currency had a message from Kyodo News, which says that the government is going to November 16 for the fourth consecutive decrease a country's economic growth. Recall that the published data this week showed a decline of the Japanese economy in the III quarter by 0.9% compared to the previous quarter, registering the first decline since 2011, which only confirms the fears that slowing global growth and tensions with China push its a recession.

Japan's currency weakened at 0.4% against all 16 major currencies on speculation that the opposition will win, and will increase the pressure on the central bank to carry out a more aggressive monetary policy, undermining demand for Japanese assets.

The dollar fell after the deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen advocated support for the proposal to hold interest rates low for economic purposes.

The dollar index, which is used to track the value of the dollar against the currencies of six partners, reached 81.055.

The pound fell to a two-week low against the euro after the Bank of England said that the UK economy could shrink in the current quarter.

EUR / USD: during the European session, the pair set a high at $ 1.2755 and then decreased, and is now trading around $ 1.2727

GBP / USD: during the European session, the pair rose to $ 1.5900, but then fell sharply to $ 1.5850

USD / JPY: during the European session shows substantial growth, and is now trading at Y80.15

At 13:30 GMT the United States to declare changes in retail sales, changes in retail sales excluding auto sales, the change in volume of retail trade sales, excluding cars and fuel for October, and will also provide data on producer price index and producer price index, excluding prices for food and energy in October. At 15:00 GMT the U.S. will become aware of any change in stocks in commercial warehouses for September. At 19:00 GMT the U.S. will publish the minutes of the Fed in November. Finish the day at 21:30 GMT U.S. data on changes in the volume of crude oil, according to the API for November.