CAD & JPY Bought Post Easter

From globalprime.com.au

As the long-weekend Easter holidays come to an end, we find the CAD as one of the top performers alongside the Japanese Yen. The former benefited from a spike in the price of Crude Oil after a surprise announcement by US President Trump, flexing his muscle against Iran by ending the waivers for all those nations buying Iranian oil. The Japanese Yen has seen an intraday tsunami of buy orders come through the books in the early hours of Tokyo, taking the currency index to its best level in weeks. The Euro also found steady bids through the stagnant holidays period, even if occurs on the back of an aggressive sell-off ... (full story)