Dollar index ticks up after U.S. productivity data

[June 07, 2016]  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar added gains briefly against a basket of currencies on Tuesday as revised figures on U.S. productivity and labor costs in the first quarter supported a view that the slack in the jobs market is diminishing at a gradual pace.

The measure of the greenback versus the euro, yen, sterling and three other currencies <.DXY> was up as much as 0.9 percent shortly after the revised data. It was last at 93.907, little changed from late Monday.

(Reporting by Richard Leong; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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