21.   Investors were wary ahead of major Japanese economic indicators including closely-watched industrial production data due this week, dealers said.

22.   Investors were wary ahead of major Japanese economic indicators including the closely-watched industrial production data due this week, dealers said.

23.   Investors were awaiting US employment data due Friday, dealers said.

24.   Both dollar-yen and dollar-mark trading was quiet, with the FOMC meeting still underway and US unemployment data due Friday, the dealers said.

25.   Cautious sentiment pressured the market ahead of the release of major economic indicators, including closely-watched industrial production data due later in the week, dealers said.

26.   Dealers said sentiment on the Hong Kong bourse remained cautious ahead of the release of United States payroll and services sector economic data due Friday.

27.   Traders were awaiting German jobless data for February, due Thursday and US data due Friday.

28.   Yet investors will want to see confirmation of a US turnaround in important data due out this week, particularly retail sales numbers slated for release on Wednesday.

29.   Nukaya said he would focus on economic indicators such as industrial output and unemployment data due next week to assess the strength of the recovery.

30.   The dollar was buoyed Thursday against the other major currencies except the yen on mostly technical factors ahead of key US unemployment data due Friday.