The US dollar is generally lower against the major currencies bloc
And the two leading currencies on the day are the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc. The Nikkei 225 index turned negative moments earlier, and that's starting to spook out traders a little - but at the moment other Asian equities are not really affected and the Nikkei is almost back on par (down only by 0.07%).
It remains to be seen if we will see things spread over to European equities but if it does, expect risk sentiment trades to pick up further during the day.
The ranges for the FX market remains narrow for now, so do keep that in mind. Even with the recent move up in the swissie, USD/CHF is only trading in a 23 pips range - to put things into perspective.
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