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Yen, Swiss Franc, and to a lesser extent, Dollar are trailing at the bottom of the weekly currency performance chart. Strong risk-on sentiment has swept through the US markets, and the positive momentum continued in Asia. This shift in sentiment was ignited by better-than-expected US retail sales data overnight, which has significantly reduced fears of […]

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