By Hideyuki Sano
TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar jumped and U.S. interest rate futures price briefly dropped after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested the central bank is still on track to raise interest rates later this year.
The euro fell about 0.5 percent to $1.1174
Federal fund futures contracts for January
Yellen, speaking a week after the Fed delayed a long-anticipated rate hike, said she and other Fed policymakers do not expect recent global economic and financial market developments to significantly affect the central bank's policy.
The Fed chair struggled to finish a speech at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst due to dehydration and received medical attention.
She later attended a dinner event as planned, a university spokesman said.
U.S. stock futures (ESc1) held relatively firm, up 0.4 percent in early Asian trade while Nikkei futures traded in Chicago
Earlier on Thursday, stocks around the world (MIWD00000PUS) fell for a fifth day, sliding towards two-year lows, as worries lingered over global economic growth and Volkswagen's emissions test scandal rattled European carmakers.
The Brazilian real bounced back sharply after hitting a record low of 4.2482 to the dollar
The real last stood at 3.9363 per dollar, rising 6.1 percent on the day.