The dollar was headed for its best month in 2-1/2-years in Asian Market opening trades today as it eyed a 3.5% gain against a basket of currencies. A raft of economic data underscoring the resilience of the U.S. economy has bolstered the greenback over the past month, as has increasing market bets of a win by Republican candidate Donald Trump at next week\'s U.S. presidential election. Trump\'s policies on tariffs, tax and immigration are seen as inflationary, thus negative for bonds and positive for the dollar. Ahead of that, a reading on September\'s U.S. core personal consumption expenditures price index - the Fed\'s preferred measure of inflation - is due on Thursday followed by the closely watched nonfarm payrolls report on Friday. Friday\'s employment numbers and whether PCE prints at 0.2% or 0.3% are going to be important, so although the election is probably the biggest single factor for next week, we could still have a price adjustment... depending on what those numbers show at the end of the week. In major currencies today, the yen languished near a three-month trough as the loss of a parliamentary majority for Japan\'s ruling coalition in weekend elections raised uncertainty about the nation\'s political and monetary outlook and is currently trading at $152.93. The euro rose 0.05% to $1.0816, while sterling GBP ticked up 0.03% to $1.2976. China\'s yuan last stood at 7.1447 per dollar in the offshore market. The dollar index was little changed at 104.28. The Indian rupee opened marginally stronger at 84.07/08 against its previous session’s close of 84.08/09 and is expected to trade between 84.05 – 84.09 band today.