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EURUSD
The Single currency soared to $1.1020, fueled by a dovish Federal Reserve's rate hike. At the same time, the European Central Bank's monetary policy decision and its president Christine Lagarde's speech shall take centre stage this afternoon.
GBPUSD
The Cable took little advantage of the dollar weakness and rose to $1.2390 despite market participants' gloomy outlook for the British economy and ahead of the Bank of England's interest rate decision later today.
USDJPY
The Japanese Yen jumped out of the block to 128.74 versus the greenback, conveniently riding the general dollar rout and in line with this morning's 0.2% rise in the Nikkei.
AUDUSD
The Australian dollar bolstered to $0.7145, underpinned by strong local Building Permits figures.
USDCAD
The Loonie hopped to 1.3280 vis-a-vis the greenback, partly due to better-than-expected Canadian GDP figures.
USDZAR
The South African Rand spiked to 17.05 against the U.S. dollar, boosted by positive vehicle sales data in South Africa and encouraging domestic PMI figures.
USDMUR
The U.S. dollar steadied at 44.95(selling) against the rupee.
16:00 GBP BoE Interest Rates Decision
16:00 GBP BoE Minutes
17:15 EUR ECB Monetary Policy Statement
17:30 USD US Initial Jobless Claim
17:45 EUR ECB Press Conference
22:30 EUR ECB Lagarde Speech
