The dollar was mostly higher against other major currencies Wednesday despite a report showing US retail sales fell in July as consumers tightened their belts.
Traders said the dollar had gained some support amid lingering concerns about eurozone economic growth.
The euro was quoted at 1.4909 dollars around 2100 GMT, down from 1.4920 dollars late Tuesday.
Against the Japanese currency, the dollar was changing hands at 109.57 yen, compared with 109.31 a day earlier.
The dollar continued to notch up gains against the euro after striking a near six-month high against the currency a day earlier.
The US currency appeared to largely brush off a Commerce Department report showing that retail sales declined a mild 0.1 percent last month, largely in the face of falling truck and car sales.
"The 0.1 percent month-on-month decline in retail sales in July confirms that the boost from the recent round of tax rebates has already faded." said Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics.
Consumer spending received a boost this summer from a giant 168-billion-dollar economic stimulus, designed to fire up economic growth, but some economists say the effects of the stimulus are ebbing.
The euro for its part failed to consolidate earlier gains amid gloom over the prospects for growth in the eurozone, despite a report showing that eurozone industrial production steadied in June following a sharp fall in the prior month.
On a 12-month basis, industrial output fell by 0.5 percent.
Analysts say concerns are persisting about economic growth in Germany, Europe's largest economy. Some economists also believe that the US economy will eventually accelerate out of its sluggish mode more quickly than Europe.
After touching a historic low, with one euro changing hands for more than 1.60 dollars, the greenback has started to recover over the past three weeks amid tumbling oil prices.
Analysts said that currency markets were also backing the dollar in the belief that other countries have worse economic problems than the United States, the world's largest economy.
Traders said they were meanwhile awaiting the release of a report Thursday on US consumer prices which could give fresh price direction to the dollar.
Inflationary pressures in the United States and Europe have been stoked higher this year by high oil prices, although crude prices have fallen in recent weeks.
In late New York trade, the pound was trading at 1.8699 dollars, down from 1.8965 dollars Tuesday.
The dollar slipped to 1.0856 Swiss francs from 1.0865.
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