NEW YORK, Nov 29 Reuters The greenback edged lower against the Japanese yen on Tuesday with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell due to speak on Wednesday, while the Aussie dollar jumped as sentiment improved on hopes that China would reopen from COVID shutdowns.

Powells comments will be evaluated for any new signs of hawkishness, with key jobs data for November due on Friday.

The dollar index has fallen to 106.82 from a 20year high of 114.78 on Sept. 28 as investors look toward the U.S. central bank reaching a peak rate early next year with inflation pressures expected to subside.

We had a sizable reversal in the dollar since the October CPI report, so thats probably a symptom of Fed tightening fading as a force of dollar support as markets increasingly look for peak Fed policy early next year, said Vassili Serebriakov, FX strategist at UBS in New York.

The U.S. central bank is expected to hike rates by an additional 50 basis points when it meets on Dec. 1314, though the odds of a 75basispoint increase have risen over the past several weeks and now stand at a 37 probability.

Traders are pricing for the Fed funds rate to peak at 5.01 in June, before falling back to 4.64 by December 2023.

The euro fell 0.15 against the U.S. currency to 1.0324. The greenback dipped 0.15 to 138.69 Japanese yen .

Moves in dollaryen are highly correlated to U.S. interest rate policy and the Japanese currency has benefited as investors pare back expectations for further aggressive…