* Yen forced as place of refuge request facilitates
* Dollar/yen includes to heavy increases made Tuesday
* Euro holds firm close to 5-1/2 month high versus dollar
SINGAPORE, The yen edged lower on Wednesday, staying under weight as hazard assumption enhanced and place of refuge request facilitated, on help over the first round of the French presidential decision.
The dollar edged up 0.2 percent to 111.30 yen. The greenback added to the robust additions made on Tuesday, when it climbed 1.2 percent, the dollar's greatest one-day ascend against the yen in three months.
Diminished worries over the French presidential races, joined with solid new U.S. home deals information and idealism encompassing a normal duty change declaration on Wednesday from U.S. President Donald Trump's organization, lifted the dollar against the yen.
In an indication of the worldwide bullish supposition, the Nasdaq Composite hit a record high on Tuesday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 brushed against late pinnacles, supported by solid corporate income.
Still, it stays to be see whether the dollar will see a maintained push higher against the yen, said Teppei Ino, investigator for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in Singapore.
"It's too soon to state that the dollar will continue slanting higher and head over the pinnacle it found in March," Ino stated, alluding to the dollar's March 10 high of 115.51 yen.
The attention will be on inevitable U.S. monetary information, particularly after a softening in some current pointers, he added.The euro edged up 0.1 percent to $1.0938. On Tuesday, it hit a 5-1/2 month high of $1.0950 as dealers processed anti-extremist competitor Emmanuel Macron's triumph in the first round of France's presidential race on Sunday.
Also, three sources near the ECB's Governing Council disclosed to Reuters that with the blurring of the danger of a keep running off between two eurosceptic hopefuls in France, and with the economy on its best keep running in years, many rate setters see scope for sending a little flag in June towards decreasing fiscal boost.
Against the yen, the euro edged up 0.2 percent to 121.76 yen . The euro has increased 4.1 percent against the yen so far this week.
The Canadian dollar chilled out, having taken a hit on Tuesday after the United States forced obligations on Canadian softwood.
The Canadian dollar remained at C$1.3572 per U.S. dollar, not exceptionally a long way from Tuesday's low of C$1.3626 against the greenback, the loonie's most minimal level since February 2016.
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