On Friday, yen slipped to the nine-month low ahead of Japan elections on Sunday to get a prime minister, who seems to be keen on pushing for more money printing by the central bank and get the moribund economy somewhat stimulated.

Thursday observed a rise in the US dollar against the Japanese yen, while it slipped down against the euro.

The US dollar rose from ¥83.26 to ¥83.64 against the yen. The losses to yen are supposed to be due to the Federal Reserve's decision to expand monetary stimulus. It said that it would be buying additional ling-maturity securities worth $45 billion.

A mixed response was seen at UK Stocks. It was found that the FTSE 100 index has increased by 0.1% amounting to 5,924.44. Meanwhile, when it was declared by the hotel and restaurant group of Whitbread PLC that its total sales have increased by 14.4%, its shares were found to be up by 4.3%.

It is for the first time in four days before the SA's third-quarter current account data release that rand has fell on Thursday with most of the trader's eyeing upon the SA's data release in a hope to see South Africa's current account widening in the third quarter and after Standard & Poor's cut Greece's debt rating.