NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar declined againstother major currencies on Monday as investors moved to secureprofits.

The dollar had its best week of

the year last week whichprompted traders to sell the greenback and take those gains, saidanalysts.

Meanwhile, investors continued to digest the country's upbeateconomic data.

U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annualrate of 3 percent in the third quarter of 2017, beating marketconsensus of 2.5 percent, according to the advance estimatereleased by the Commerce Department Friday. In the second quarter,real GDP increased 3.1 percent.

The increase in real GDP in the third quarter reflected positivecontributions from personal consumption expenditures, privateinventory investment, nonresidential fixed investment, exports, andfederal government spending, said the department.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six majorpeers, was down 0.33 percent at 94.602 in late trading.

In late New York trading, the euro climbed to 1.1633 U.S.dollars from 1.1596 U.S. dollars, and the British pound increasedto 1.3197 U.S. dollars from 1.3125 U.S. dollars. The Australiandollar increased to 0.7678 U.S. dollar from 0.7667 U.S. dollar.

The U.S. dollar bought 113.17 Japanese yen, lower than 113.84yen of the previous session. The U.S. dollar declined to 0.9953Swiss franc from 0.9986 Swiss franc, and it edged down to 1.2838Canadian dollars from 1.2861 Canadian dollars. Enditem