Brazil's real rose as much as 1.2% before trading flat, while Mexico's peso rose almost 1%. Chile's peso firmed 1.1%, while Peru's sol snapped a three-day losing streak.
The dollar climbed ahead of the data, pressuring riskier emerging markets (EM) currencies. MSCI's index of EM currencies slipped slightly from all-time highs.
The dollar rose as investors awaited key US readings this week, which are likely to show an economic recovery gathering steam.
Chile's peso fell 0.3%, while Mexico's peso dipped 0.2%. But both currencies are expected to mark strong gains this year, with Chile benefiting from a spike in copper prices, while Mexico is set to benefit from a bounceback in the US economy.
Brazil's real rose 0.2% while Mexico's peso added 0.3%. Higher copper prices bolstered top producer Chile's peso, which was up 0.5% after two straight days of losses.
In Peru, the sol currency and the stock index made slight moves after a day of turbulence when markets were spooked by a socialist surge in presidential elections.
The peso slipped 0.8% in early trading. Chile's central bank is not expected to move rates, with markets pricing in two rate hikes by the end of the year.
"The global rate-cutting cycle that occurred in the wake of the pandemic has ended and even begun to reverse," economists at Capital Economics wrote in a client note.
Bolstered by a strong rise in US producer prices, a fresh spike in US Treasury yields sparked a risk-off move, with the dollar reversing its fall from earlier in the week.
These legal setbacks will only intensify (President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's) desire to change the constitution to shield his energy-sector vision from further legal setbacks down the road.
