The Euro was forced to diminish for a sixth trading session in a row on Tuesday of this week, as European fundamentals were not in a position to support any kind of growth.
Commodities were down across the spectrum on Monday, compared with Friday's rally amid Greenback's weakness. However, on May 9 the US currency rebounded substantially, as financial markets began speculating again about the upcoming meeting of the Federal Reserve in June.
Provided with rising expectations that the Federal Reserve may increase interest rates as soon as June and increasing energy prices, the Euro managed to appreciate against the Japanese Yen and commodity currencies on Monday.
The US Dollar managed to post gains across the board, with only one exception registered against the Swiss Franc.
The Pound set off with rather good performance this week, having appreciated against most of other major currencies, with exception against the US Dollar and the Swiss Franc.
The Greenback outperformed most major currencies on Friday and over the weekend, despite a poor reading of the NFP data.
The Sterling experienced mixed performance on Friday and over the weekend, having appreciated against some major peers, but also declined against the others.
While slightly softer US currency might have had little influence on other FX market components, it definitely provided a positive momentum to the majority of commodities.
While substantially lowering its inflation forecast, the Reserve Bank of Australia sent the national currency down by 1.31% against the Euro on Friday.
The US Dollar managed to outperform most major currencies on Thursday, but struggled against the commodity currencies.
A poor reading of the UK Services PMI yesterday caused the British currency to sustain losses against most major peers.
Oil contracts were popular among investors on Thursday, as possible temporary production disruption in Canada and Libya raised prices these energy futures by about one percentage point.
While two days ago the Euro surged against all but one currency, yesterday the tendency was reversed fully around.
The Greenback managed to post gains across the board, despite the ADP Non-Farm Employment Change data disappointing dramatically.
The British Pound was unable to post significant gains against other major currencies, due to a poor reading of the UK Construction PMI data.
Natural gas continued to greatly diverge from its counterparts in the commodity market. It posted a daily surge of 2.64% on May 4, while all others used to hover in a much less turbulent environment.
The European single currency was up the most against the Canadian Dollar on Wednesday. This is the only component, which surpassed the 1% mark and stopped growing at 1.06%.
The American Dollar managed to recover and post gains across the board, after having suffered losses against most major peers on Monday.
Due to a poor reading of the UK Manufacturing PMI on Tuesday, the Sterling sustained losses against most major peers, with exception against the commodity-based currencies.
Natural gas, by being the most volatile commodity in our review, revived 2.15% on Tuesday after steep downward changes of more than 6% a day before.
The Australian Dollar crushed by 2.11% against the Euro yesterday, after the Reserve Bank of Australia surprisingly decided to curb the key interest rate to 1.75% from 2%.
The US Dollar sustained losses against all other major currencies, due to a poor reading of the US Manufacturing PMI data yesterday.
The British currency experienced mixed performance on Monday, having appreciated against some major peers, but declined against the others.
Despite much weakened US currency, all major commodities have posted a significant retreat in prices over Monday, the second day of May. Natural gas was down the most by more than 6%, with contracts for delivery in June losing attractiveness in the wake of warmer US weather forecasts.