Dollar closed at 63.8450 against its opening at 63.6700.  Dollar ended little changed Friday as global weakness in the greenback and likely overseas funds inflow into local stocks were offset by oil importers'.Dollar seen little changed as investors remained on sidelines on lack of fresh triggers amid no significant data release from the world's largest economy. The dollar remained subdued after mixed economic data from the world's largest economy. Investors were encouraged by better than expected weekly jobless claims data while housing starts and the Philly Fed index were disappointments.On the US economic front, first-time claims for US unemployment benefits pulled back by more than expected in the week ended Jan 13, reported the Labour Department on Thursday. The report said initial jobless claims dropped to 220,000, a decrease of 41,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 261,000. 

The Commerce Department showed a steep fall in new residential construction in the US in the month of December. The report said housing starts tumbled by 8.2% to an annual rate of 1.192 million in the month of December from the revised November estimate of 1.299 million. 

Sensex provisionally ends 251 points, or 0.7 percent higher, at 35,511.58 points, with 24 components in green.

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Asian shares were mixed with Tokyo down despite some heavyweight gains as investors looked to US politics after the House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill for the government, but the Senate may be harder to reach a deal and President Trump has how own concerns.

Gold prices gained in Asia as a weaker dollar brought physical demand into the market.

China’s economy grew faster than expected in the fourth quarter of 2017, as an export recovery helped the country post its first annual acceleration in growth in seven years, defying concerns that intensifying curbs on industry and credit would hurt expansion.

Australia's economy is seen cruising at a comfortable click over the next two years courtesy of strength in jobs, business investment and public spending, though miserly wage growth and a heavily-indebted consumer lurk as threats.

Oil prices dropped more than 1 percent as a bounce-back in U.S. production outweighed ongoing declines in crude inventories.