Yen helped by steep drop in U.S. Treasury yields
Bitcoin falls below $30,000 for first time in a month
TOKYO, July 20 (Reuters) - Safe-harbour currencies like the yen and dollar traded near multi-month highs against the riskier Australian dollar and British pound on Tuesday, as fears grow that a rampant coronavirus variant could upend the global economic recovery.
Cryptocurrencies also sank, with bitcoin falling below $30,000 for the first time in about a month.
The yen traded at 80.09 per Aussie dollar , close to the more-than-five-month high of 80.05 touched on Monday. It stood at 149.48 to the pound , approaching the almost-three-month top of 149.35 reached overnight.
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