By Ankur Banerjee and Alun John
SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar restored some lost ground on the Japanese yen on Tuesday even as traders stayed careful of additional intervention by Tokyo to prop up their currency after information revealed they mostlikely stepped into markets late last week.
The dollar was last up 0.3% on the yen at 158.44. It hadactually been trading simply shy of 162 yen last week before unexpected falls, which took it to as low as 157.16 on Thursday.
Bank of Japan information launched on Tuesday recommended Tokyo might have invested 2.14 trillion yen ($13.5 billion) by stepping into the cash market on Friday.
Combined with the approximated quantity invested a day earlier, Japan is mostlikely to have purchased almost 6 trillion yen through intervention last week.
Japanese authorities haveactually made it requirement practice to not verify whether they have steppedin, however Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi stated Japan stands allset to take all possible actions to counter exceedingly unstable currency relocations.
Moves in Europe were relatively calm as traders were worried about putting too huge bets on sterling ahead of essential British inflation information due on Wednesday and on the euro, with a European Central Bank (ECB) conference on Thursday.
The pound was last flat at $1.29685, having hit a near 1year high simply shy of $1.3 a day earlier.
The euro too was little altered at $1.09003, simply shy of a four-month high touched on Monday, havingactually removed losses from the past coupleof weeks when it came under pressure from unpredictability over the French election.
The ECB is anticipated to hold rates, however attentio