LONDON (Reuters) - Most G10 currencies fell on Tuesday as investors took profits from the risk-on mood seen in the markets in the past weeks and the U.S. dollar found some footing, rising against commodity currencies for the first time in June.

The latest cause for exuberance, which drove stock markets higher, was last week’s U.S. jobs data for May. However, a stronger Japanese yen pointed to trepidation over the U.S. Federal Reserve’s two-day meeting starting later in the day.

“All the things that have done exceptionally well since March 23 when the Fed made all financial markets rise again are in reversal today, and the one currency that has gone down against the dollar since then was the yen,” and now the yen is reversing, said Kit Juckes, macro strategist at Societe Generale.

“We’ve had two and a half months of rocking risk-on that’s taken equities market further than anybody would have expected and we’re having a big co-ordinated joined-up pause ahead of the Fed meeting,” Juckes said.

The Australian dollar fell nearly 2% on Tuesday after China’s education ministry China on Tuesday urged students going overseas to think carefully before choosing Australia, citing racist incidents targeting Asians during the COVID-19 pandemic and putting A$12 billion ($8.3 billion) of fee revenue at risk.

“What surprised me is how the Australian dollar ignored up until now the deterioration of the relationship between Beijing and Australia,” said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank. “There’s been quite a few comments from China to Australia over the last few, and yet the Australian dollar managed to push up to 70.”

“I suspect that one of the reasons that it fell back today was, yes it was the comments, but I think the market was sensing that the Australian dollar was also quite overbought around those levels.”

The Australian dollar AUD=D4 was last down 1.2% to 0.6930 after falling nearly 2% to 0.6899 - a five-day low. Earlier in the Asian trading session, it rose to an 11-month high of 0.7043. The New Zealand dollar NZD=D4 fell 1% to 0.6494, off the four-and-a-half-month high touched earlier.

An increase in employment caught markets by surprise and together with a smaller-than-expected fall in Chinese exports last month pushed the trade-sensitive Aussie and kiwi to milestone highs. Even after dipping on Tuesday, the kiwi is up about 5% on the dollar this month and the Aussie about 4%.

The Japanese yen rose to a one-week high of 107.78 and was last trading up 0.3% JPY=EBS.

“If you’re a fund manager and you were long assets of one kind ... there’s sound reasons for thinking why wouldn’t I own some yen here, some dollar/yen puts, what’s my smart trade to hedge something,” said SocGen’s Juckes.

“When all the dust settles, whatever happens, Japanification just goes on and how can I have a cheap yen in that world,” he said, referring to interest rates across the world falling and converging with rates in Japan.

Some analysts in Asia thought the yen rose as investors positioned for the likelihood that the Fed will take steps to flatten the Treasury yield curve this week. A statement from the Fed is due at 1800 GMT on Wednesday.

The euro fell 0.2% to $1.1277 EUR=EBS.

Elsewhere, the Norwegian crown fell 0.9% versus the U.S. dollar to 9.3450 NOK=D3 and 0.8% versus the euro to 10.5375 EURNOK=D3, off the three-month highs it touched the day before.

The Canadian dollar fell 0.6% to $1.3457 CAD=D3.