By Deborah Levine
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The dollar pared its decline versus the euro and turned slightly higher versus the Japanese yen on Tuesday after a Treasury Department report showed total holdings of U.S. equities, notes and bonds increased by a net $63.3 billion in December, down from $126.4 billion in the previous month. Purchases of Treasurys by foreign private and government investors also slowed. The euro bought $1.3652, up by 0.4% from Monday. The dollar index (DXY 80.09, -0.24, -0.30%) , which tracks the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, traded at 80.171, compared to 80.078 before the report and little changed from Monday. The dollar recovered from slight earlier losses versus the Japanese currency rise 0.1% and buy 90.13 yen.
