Most markets are higher this morning as risk-on sentiment dominates: NZD/USD, AUD/USD, GBP/USD are showing impressive gains as we move into the afternoon trading session.
The leading indices are climbing up — USD/CHF slipping 0.84% and closing at 0.897. EUR/USD goes up 0.65%, trading at 1.0862.
Uptick coincides with some positive signs published earlier as highly important Crude Oil Inventories data from United States beat analyst expectations of 1.48 million with a reading of 7.92 million.
Here are the biggest currencies gainers so far today.
+1.33%: 1.33% boost for the Kiwi currency pair so far today
Heading in the same direction for now — tentatively higher from an earlier low of 0.6145, NZD/USD is up to 0.6232 today, adding 81 pips, or 1.33%, to yesterday's closing price of 0.615.
+0.64%: the British Pound currency pair adds 80 pips or 0.64%
Sterling-Dollar rallies 80 pips (0.64%) deep into the session, trading at 1.2693.
+0.93%: Aussie-Dollar currency pair posts 0.93% gain
This session seems to remain in the same lane for now — tentatively higher from an earlier low of 0.6765, the Australian dollar is up to 0.6831 today, adding 62 pips, or 0.93%, to yesterday's closing price of 0.6769.