REFILE-FOREX-Euro heavy as EU disappoints,Aussie near 10-yr high

(Corrects location of analyst in paragraph 10 to Toronto)

* Euro heavy on lack of detail on steps for Greece

* Focus moving to European finmin meetings next week

* But first Q4 GDP due from euro zone countries

* Aussie pares some gains, near decade high on euro

By Charlotte Cooper

TOKYO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The euro softened across the board on Friday, weighed by disappointment among investors over lack of detail from the European Union on helping debt-laden Greece.

Commodity-linked currencies such as the Australian dollar remained buoyant but trimmed some gains made following Chinese inflation numbers the previous day, which fuelled hopes China may not need to be too aggressive near-term on tightening.

The Aussie, also supported by a revival in expectations for higher rates, hovered near a decade-high against the euro.

Traders said the European currency might get a lift from covering of short positions ahead of a long weekend in the United States and parts of Asia, but investors stood ready to sell it on rallies above $1.3700.

There was talk too of an options barrier at $1.3500 set to expire later in the day, and even though trading ranges were small, dealers said there had been some hedge fund selling of euros for dollars, while Japanese exporters sold against the yen.

The next focus for the market on the fiscal saga is meetings early next week between EU finance ministers, although analysts said that might still be too early to expect much clarity on what steps the bloc would take to help Greece tackle its debt.

"There will still be a lot of questions hanging around," said Gareth Berry, currency analyst at UBS in Singapore.

"The EU have no experience of this type of thing. They are not the IMF and they will be very careful not to plunge into this with both feet and not think things through."

The euro slid 0.2 percent from late U.S. levels to $1.3665, after dipping as far as $1.3595 on EBS on Thursday, not far from an 8-1/2-month low of $1.3585 hit last week. It has fallen more than 4 percent this year against the dollar.

"These uncertainties will likely dwell for weeks if not months, capping the euro's upward potential," said Matthew Strauss, senior currency analyst at RBC Capital in Toronto.

The euro was quoted at about A$1.5375, just above the previous day's low around A$1.5330, its weakest level against the Aussie since 2000, according to Reuters data.

It fell 0.3 percent to 122.55 yen.

Traders said its failure to clear 124.00 yen several times this week showed how limited its potential was to rise and they were watching its one-year low of 120.70 yen set last week and then 120.00, with talk of options triggers below that level.

But they were also wary of Japanese investors buying euros on dips after Nippon Life, Japan's biggest life insurer, said this week it could buy euro zone bonds without FX hedging with the euro at about 120 yen.

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Before next week's meetings, attention will be on economic data, with fourth-quarter GDP readings for Germany, France, Italy and the euro zone due later in the day.

Traders say the euro can ill afford softer-than-expected data, especially at a time when uncertainty about whether Greece will have to be bailed out is uppermost in investors' minds.

But traders said market sentiment was not entirely risk averse, with a bounce in commodities the previous day and shares in Asia rising.

The Australian dollar held on to most of the previous day's gain of 1.7 percent against the dollar, holding just below $0.8900.

It has been boosted by renewed talk of an Australian rate hike next month and hopes that after the muted inflation reading in China, Asia's economic powerhouse will not move to tighten monetary policy quickly.

The Aussie, which rose 1.6 percent on the yen on Thursday to its highest in a week, softened 0.2 percent to 79.73 yen.

The New Zealand dollar, which rose nearly 1 percent on Thursday to its highest in a week, edged down 0.2 percent to $0.6975 after softer-than-expected retail sales data backed views that interest rates there will not rise before the middle of this year..

It slipped 0.4 percent to 62.48 yen.

The dollar eased 0.1 percent to 89.64 yen after failing to hold above its 100-day moving average at 90.13 on Thursday.

The dollar index was steady at 80.073, with eyes on U.S. retail sales data for January. Sales, excluding autos, are expected to rise 0.5 percent. (Additional reporting by Satomi Noguchi and Kaori Kaneko in Tokyo and Anirban Nag in Sydney; Editing by Joseph Radford)