Friday's economic data was predominantly pessimistic across the board and not only in Europe. EUR/USD posted the second-fastest increase in value of 0.14%, helped by negatively-biased US fundamentals.
Weaker-than-anticipated US CPI figures failed to push the American Dollar lower yesterday, as the only decline was registered against the Australian Dollar.
The British currency weakened against almost every other major peer on Thursday, with the only exception being the New Zealand Dollar.
Corn was forced to remain the only component, among commodities included in this review, to add value on Thursday. Moreover, it became the best gainer for a second consecutive working day.
Owing to the lack of Euro zone's fundamentals on Thursday, the common currency of the bloc was driven mainly by other components that used to have at least some basis to trade on.
The risk-on sentiment helped the US Dollar to post gains across the board on Wednesday.
Another day of relatively poor performance was in store for the British currency on Wednesday.
We have seen a big move in terms of corn prices on Wednesday, because they appreciated by 3.15% and were followed by soaring natural gas (1.60%) with quite a wide gap.
American statistical data was all but encouraging on Wednesday, given that retail sales dropped in March and producer prices fell instead of advancing.
The American Dollar suffered losses against most major peers on Tuesday, amid a poor reading of the US Import Price Index.
The Sterling experienced mixed performance over the last 24 hours, as it appreciated against some major peers, but also declined against the others.
All commodities except the safe haven gold added more than 1.5% on Tuesday, with the gains led by all energy components.
The Euro appreciated only versus the Japanese Yen on Tuesday, as the pair's 0.37% pick up was mainly prompted by an increase in the number of risk-on market bets and generally rising risk expectations.
Prices of both precious and energy commodities continued to rally during the first working day of this week, helped by broader risk-on sentiment and other influential factors.
Yesterday the Euro was an active trading currency against all its counterparts but the US Dollar and the Japanese Yen. Greenback's buyers and sellers are maintaining the equal level of importance for a number of consecutive sessions already, and the volatility is not caused even by remarks that are made by top officials.
The US currency sustained losses against all major currencies, with exception against the Swiss Franc.
The British Pound started the week by appreciating against most of other major peers, with exception against the New Zealand currency.
The US Dollar suffered losses against all other major currencies on Friday and over the weekend.
The British currency managed to appreciate against all other major currencies on Friday and over the weekend, but struggled to gain value against some of the commodity-based currencies.
Commodity prices held to gains on Friday of the previous week, as a flow of positive fundamental news was able to put most of them on a bullish track.
After days of losses, the Euro recovered, albeit only by six basis points, against the Japanese Yen. Friday was the first bearish day for Japan's currency since March 31.
The US Dollar managed to appreciate against most major currencies on Thursday, but still suffered a rather significant decline against the Japanese Yen.
Another day of ‘Brexit' jitters caused the Sterling to decline against most major peers, with some exceptions against the commodity-based currencies.
Futures for natural gas see an aggressive post-season rally, as yesterday they skyrocketed by 5.60% and outperformed all of its major peers.