The data out of the euro zone did little to inspire further strength, but nor did it stifle any of the recent optimism over the common currency.
Investors are also weighing the prospects for an interest-rate cut or other action by European Central Bank officials scheduled to meet Thursday, following another wave of disappointing economic data from the euro zone in recent days.
Even with all of the dollar negative data though, the support zone slightly below 1.0300 has held sturdy.
Meantime, retail sales data in the 17 countries of the Euro zone rose slightly in August, for the fourth straight monthly gain.
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Euro-zone gross-domestic-product data showed a contraction in the fourth quarter of 2011 and nine out of the euro bloc's 17 member states posted a fall.
Labor costs across the euro zone rose by 3.3%, in the first quarter of 2008, according to data published by the European Union's statistical office Eurostat, in mid June.
European stocks closed in the red Wednesday and the euro erased gains versus the dollar as the woes of the euro zone continued to bug investors, highlighted by lackluster euro-zone economic data and a subdued German 10-year government bond auction.
Having fled these currencies in late 2011 as the euro zone's crisis deepened, investors returned to emerging markets and other riskier assets at the beginning of this year, buoyed by encouraging economic data out of the U.S. and signs the euro-zone debt crisis is calming down.
In Europe, shares of big manufacturing companies and miners declined on weak euro-zone and U.S. data.
To the extent that America's economic cycle typically leads the European cycle, American data may help to assess the future path of output and inflation in the euro zone.
The markets made a bit of a recovery from the lows of the day but remained in negative territory amid lackluster economic data and ongoing concerns over the euro zone.
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