UK Retail Sales rose a solid 2.1% in January, well ahead of expectations, after run of soft data in Q4, Scotiabank's Chief FX Strategist Shaun Osborne notes.
Preliminary Eurozone PMI data for February were mixed to slightly softer, weighing on the EUR somewhat in European trade, Scotiabank's Chief FX Strategist Shaun Osborne notes.
The US Dollar (USD) is trading higher on the day overall, with yesterday’s big winner, the JPY, this morning’s big loser after Japan’s January headline CPI reflected the anticipated pick up to 4.0% Y/Y, Scotiabank's Chief FX Strategist Shaun Osborne notes.
The US Dollar Index (DXY), which tracks the performance of the US Dollar (USD) against six major currencies, is trading around 106.60 at the time of writing after a rather disappointing United States (US) preliminary Purchase Manager's Index (PMI)
European natural gas and power prices have dropped back over the past week despite a cold spell adding to heating demand in Northern Europe, Danske Bank's FX analyst Mohamad Al-Saraf reports.
Gold’s price (XAU/USD) took in on the chin and was down over 1% from its Thursday all-time high of $2,954 during the Asian trading session on Friday, now heading back to nearly flat ahead of the US trading session around $2,935 at the time of writing.
As of 17 Feb, Politico’s poll of polls shows CDU/CSU leading at 30%, AfD at 21%, SPD at 16% and Greens at 13%, while other smaller parties are in the region of 5% or so.
The euro has benefited from the unwinding of US Dollar (USD) longs, but remains generally unattractive in the crosses, ING’s FX analysts Francesco Pesole notes.
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