The Dollar and more especially the Yen have been trading firmer against most other currencies amid a backdrop of tumbling global stock markets and weakening emerging market currencies, with investors fretting about tighter Fed policy and the increasingly evident fallout from the U.S. trade protectionism. USD-CAD lifted to a fresh two-month high at 1.3198, buoyed not only by firmness in the U.S. currency, but also by underperformance of the Canadian Dollar, which has been dented by the plunge in oil prices.