But the firm expects strong support at around $ 1.3075 — the 38.2 percent retracement of that whole rise from the $ 1.2040 low hit in July last year to the 2012 peak of $ 1.3711. Current rise from 1.2040 is still expected to continue, and if the euro hits above $ 1.3458, that will turn bias back to the upside for retesting of $ 1.3711 first.

“The euro is in a consolidation mode right now, but the Eurogroup meeting should set the temperature for the rest of the week,” said Win Thin, global head of emerging market currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York.

The Group of Seven nations are considering issuing a statement this week reaffirming their commitment to “market-determined” exchange rates in response to heating rhetoric about a currency war, two G20 officials said on Monday.

France insisted Monday that euro zone finance officials should discuss the rising strength of the euro, but several ministers played down the issue, and the G7 was expected to call for “market-determined” exchange rates.

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloemon on Monday said Eurogroup ministers discussed the euro, but concluded that the debate belonged more with the G20 meeting later this week in Moscow.

Some remain uneasy about the euro due to political and fiscal uncertainty as well as last month’s steep ascent.

Concerns about the terms of a bailout for Cyprus, which will be high on the Eurogroup’s agenda, could cap the euro’s gains, analysts said.

There are also growing worries about a political scandal in Spain, and about Italy in the run-up to the Feb. 24-25 election.

Against the yen, the euro rose 2.0 percent to 126.42 yen. That is above Friday’s one-week low of 123.43, but still some way off the 34-month high of 127.71 yen hit on Feb. 6.

The euro sold off last week after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi kept alive expectations of rate cuts and said the bank would monitor the economic impact of the strengthening currency.

Eyes on BOJ

Much of Asia was shut for the Lunar New Year holidays keeping volumes on the low side. Traders braced for more volatility later in the week with U.S. retail sales, European growth data, the G20 meeting in Moscow, and a Bank of Japan policy decision.

The BoJ, meanwhile, is expected to keep monetary policy steady this week. In the past few months, the yen has slumped as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe put pressure on the central bank to take aggressive easing measures to revive the economy.

The dollar last traded at 94.32 yen, blowing past the 33-month high of 94.06 yen hit Wednesday, according to Reuters data.

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