For the second successive day, EUR/USD advanced the most among all currency pairs of the Euro.
The Greenback fell under pressure yesterday and suffered substantial losses. The Buck lost the most versus the Aussie (1.08%), following with a 0.69% decline against the Loonie, 0.55% against the Sterling, 0.54% versus the Swiss Franc and 0.51% versus the Euro. The smallest losses were registered against the Yen and the Kiwi, 0.17% and 0.37%, respectively.
The Sterling experienced mixed performance over the day. The Pound added 0.55% against the US Dollar, 0.37% against the Yen and 0.17 against the Kiwi, while losses of 0.53% and 0.15% were registered versus the Aussie and the Loonie, respectively. Nevertheless, the British currency remained relative unchanged against the Euro, adding 0.02%, and the Swiss Franc, gaining only 0.01%.
Following exceptionally weak commodity market's performance on Monday, it erased the vast part of losses a day later, with growth posted by all commodities from our review.
Yesterday, the Euro increased in value against three of its main counterparts, while declining versus four of them.
The US Dollar experienced rather good performance yesterday, with exception against the Sterling. Kiwi suffered substantial losses 0f 2.13% against the Greenback, while other currencies lost less than one percent. The following three largest gains were detected against the Aussie (0.55%), the Euro (0.48%) and the Swissie (0.42%). However, the Buck declined 0.96% versus the British Pound.
The British currency was one of the best performers yesterday, as it appreciated against most major peers. A huge rise of 2.91% was registered against the Kiwi, following with moderate gains versus the Euro (1.42%), the Aussie (1.31%), the Swissie (1.23%), the Yen (1.12%) and the Loonie (1.08%). The US Dollar was the most resilient, as it lost only 0.85%
On the first working day of this week, all commodities that are included in our review declined in price.
On Monday, there were two clear major market movers among the Euro-currency pairs.
The Sterling was one of the best-performing currencies last Friday, as it appreciated against most major peers. The largest gains of 2.35% and 1.80% were registered against the Swiss Franc and the Euro, respectively. Slightly less, but still noticeably, the British currency added 1.41% versus the Yen, 1.38% versus the Buck and 1.12% versus the Aussie. The Loonie and the
The US Dollar experienced mixed performance over Friday. Gains of 0.93% and 0.51% were registered against the Swiss Franc and the Euro, respectively. At the same time, the Greenback declined against the Sterling (1.22%), the Kiwi (0.52%), the Loonie (0.49%) and the Aussie (0.34%). Nonetheless, the Buck remained relatively unchanged versus the Yen, having gained only 0.02%.
Natural gas surged 5.34% on Friday, posting the fastest jump in price during that day and overshadowing changes of other commodities.
On Friday, the single currency was in the up-trend only against the Swiss Franc, where an increase reached 0.41% on day-to-day basis.
The US Dollar was one of the best-performing currencies over the day, with exception against the Sterling. The largest gains were detected against the Aussie and the Euro, 076% and 0.71%, respectively. The Yen was most resilient, as the Greenback added only 0.23% against it. However, the Buck remained relatively unchanged against the British Pound (-0.02%), following with a further
Thursday was marked by poor performance of commodities. The benchmark index, S&P GSCI, fell as much as 2.02% yesterday.
The Euro turned out to be the second worst performer yesterday, giving up as much as 0.71% relative to the US Dollar and 0.69% relative to the British Pound.
The British Pound was one of the best-performing currencies yesterday, as it appreciated against most major peers. Substantial gains were recorded against the Aussie, and the Euro, adding 0.77% and 0.71%, respectively. The Sterling gained slightly less versus the Loonie (0.66%), the Kiwi (0.63%) and the Swissie (0.62%), whereas the smallest gain was detected against the Yen (0.21%). The Sterling
The share of buy commands increased from 52 to 67%
The Sterling experienced mixed performance over the day. Largest gains of 1.23% and 0.42% were registered against the Kiwi and the Greenback, respectively. However, substantial losses were also detected against the Euro (0.99%) and the Swiss Franc (0.71%).
By registering only a marginal decrease in price, some of the major commodities were on the side of losers on Wednesday.
The Euro traded very noticeably to the upside during the market trading session on Wednesday, as the common currency advanced versus all of its major counterparts.
The US Dollar was one of the worst performers yesterday, as it declined against most major currencies. The Greenback suffered the most losses against the Aussie (1.32%), following with a 0.77% drop versus the Swiss Franc. Less declines were registered against the Sterling (0.41%), the Euro (0.35%), the Kiwi (0.29%), the Yen (0.22%) and the Loonie (0.22%).
Yesterday, market participants could observe a major advance in oil prices, which grew by 1.61% and 2.49% for Brent and Crude types of it, respectively.
Besides EUR/AUD currency pair, the market for the single currency stayed largely muted in terms of price changes, and developments did not exceed 0.5% both from positive and negative side.