Back on Monday, the yellow metal stayed on the negative side of performance table among main commodities as it fell 0.37% yesterday but showed the smallest bearish move, compared to its counterparts.
The British Pound dragged behind its counterparts yesterday, losing 0.61% relative to the loonie and 0.57% relative to the Euro, though the changes in other crosses were rather insignificant, between -0.12 and -0.25%.
In the beginning of a new working week on January 19, the euro registered a positive change against all but one currency on the market.
The Yen turned out to be the second worst performer on Friday, giving up as much as 1.35% of its value against the Aussie and 1.20% against the US Dollar.
Though the Pound lost against the US Dollar (-0.22%), it managed to outperform the safe havens.
Last Friday, Gold continued with its strong appreciating tendency, as potential risks from SNB's move on the franc's peg to the Euro are increasing demand for safe-haven assets.
During last day of the previous working week, the Euro continued weakening versus the majority of other currencies on the exchange market.
The Yen appreciated relative to most of its counterparts amid the risk-off sentiment.
The Pound was among the worst performers yesterday, gaining only against the Euro (+1.02%).
On Thursday, Gold used to be the unconditional leader among commodities.
Even though the Euro dropped on Thursday versus all major currencies on the foreign exchange market and a decline versus all of them exceeded 1%, it was far away for being the main market driver.
For the time being the Yen does not exhibit sensitivity to the Japanese data, as the risk-off sentiment continues to be the major factor in the market.
Despite there being no explicitly positive news, the Sterling turned out to be the second best performing currency on Wednesday, losing merely 0.03% against the Yen and appeciation 0.73 and 0.68% against the kiwi and Aussie, respectively.
During the previous working day on Wednesday, Gold declined just 0.16% during the trading session, as even negative US fundamental data failed to increase demand of the safe-haven metal and push the price upwards.
Yesterday, the shared European currency was mixed in terms of movements against other major market players.
Yesterday the Yen appreciated at the expense of all its major counterparts amid the flight to quality.
The British Pound turned out to be surprisingly resilient to the yesterday's events. The currency may have underperformed the Yen (-0.43%), but at the same time managed to gain relative to the kiwi (+0.51%) and relative to the Euro (+0.44%).
Yesterday, Gold used to be on the side of negative daily performers, even though it decreased just 0.22% during the market trading session and posted the smallest decline among all losers.
On Tuesday of this week, the single European currency resumed its downward trend it retained for the previous couple of weeks, as the Euro managed to increase in value only against the New Zealand's dollar by 0.07%.
Despite Friday bringing a plethora of good news regarding the state of the US economy, particularly regarding the improving labour market, the US Dollar appeared among the worst performers, advancing only against its Canadian counterpart (+0.3%) and losing nearly a whole percent relative to the Japanese Yen and the Aussie.
Despite absence of any explicitly favourable for the Sterling data yesterday, the currency fared well relative to its counterparts, advancing a whole percent against the loonie and 0.76% against the kiwi.
Even though the majority of commodities registered a strong decline in value on the first day of this working week, Gold managed to become the leader and even rise in price.
Similar to Friday of the previous week, yesterday the Euro performed in a rather mixed environment for the most part of the day, which was reflected in its daily gains and losses against its counterparts.
Despite Friday bringing a plethora of good news regarding the state of the US economy, particularly regarding the improving labour market, the US Dollar appeared among the worst performers, advancing only against its Canadian counterpart (+0.3%) and losing nearly a whole percent relative to the Japanese Yen and the Aussie.