Against the current: Markets are down, yet USD/JPY, GBP/JPY, EUR/JPY go up and make this list of top gainers.
The leading indices are slipping — EUR/USD trades at 1.0696 after losing 0.32%. GBP/USD drawing back 0.24% to 1.2155.
While price action maintains a negative bias, United States Participation Rate (Feb) released yesterday at 13:30 UTC with a figure of 118.3, while the previous figure was 62.4.
Though markets had an unsatisfactory day yesterday, some currencies manage to recover as Top Gainers. Take a look:
Pound-Yen | +0.51% in mid-session
As things stand, Pound-Yen is 12.21% away from a significant low of 144.6 first set 5 months ago.
Dollar/Yen | +0.73% in mid-session
Having set a peak of 150.1 around 4 months ago, Dollar/Yen is now trading 11.26% below this level.
After three days of declines, Euro-Yen is up 57 pips today
After closing the previous trading day at 142.92, Euro-Yen is up to 143.5, which makes for a move of 0.4%/57 pips today.