Markets are up, with EUR/USD and GBP/USD in the lead. These are unique currencies that were not expected on this list of top gainers.
The US dollar is getting stronger against a basket of currencies — USD/JPY drawing back 0.69% to 145.6. USD/CAD trades at 1.3427 after losing 0.5%.
Meanwhile, United States 3-Year Note Auction released today at 18:00 UTC with a figure of 4.605, while the previous figure was 4.318.
What are surprising gainers?
Surprising Gainers are low-performing assets that have jumped up in a way that is inconsistent with their past behavior and gained more than their expected daily return, thus making them surprising. The following list rates assets according to the difference between expectation and actual return: the bigger the difference, the higher the rank.
Kicking off the session at 1.0018, Euro-Dollar currency pair peaks at 1.0096
Heading in the same direction for now — after dipping down to 0.9972, EUR/USD regains earlier losses and reaches 1.0074.
0.33% boost for Sterling-Dollar currency pair so far today
As the session continues, it seems to maintain one direction — after dipping down to 1.143, the British Pound regains earlier losses and goes up to 1.1557.