Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar and yen weakened against most of their major counterparts before China reports third- quarter gross domestic product data today.

The U.S. currency fell 0.2 percent to $1.3771 per euro as of 9:35 a.m. Tokyo time, and the yen dropped 0.3 percent to 105.87 per euro.

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