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Biggest % gainers: EUR/GBP up 0.31%, USD/CHF ...not much momentum there.

Biggest % losers: GBP/JPY down 1.35%, EUR/JPY down 1.03%, GBP/USD, CHF/JPY on EUR, CHF & GBP weakness and JPY & USD strength. That's where the momentum is today...to the down side. That's one nice advantage of the intraday lists...it shows you which currencies are the real movers and if the momentum is more to the up side or down side.

Euro weighed down by dovish comments from the ECB: http://www.dailyfx.com/forex/fundame..._Comments.html

GBP Trade Balance worse at -7.5B vs. -6.5B expected.

USD Unemployment Claims 444k vs. ...

Biggest % gainers: CAD/JPY up 0.70% (go CAD/JPY!)...AUD/JPY, NZD/JPY on JPY weakness.

Biggest % losers: USD/CAD down 0.62%, EUR/CAD on CAD strength. (exotics: USD/ZAR and USD/TRY also among the biggest intraday losers).

Euro Sales Accelerate as UBS Sees $1.20, Morgan Stanley Ponders `Breakup'. Investors are abandoning the euro at a rate not seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. as Europe’s worsening fiscal crisis threatens to splinter the 16-nation currency union.

GBP Nationwide Home Price Index (HPI) m/m better than expected at 1.0% vs. 0.4% expected. Last time revised higher to 1.0% vs. 0.7% formerly.

USD Unemployment Claims basically in line at 448k vs. 442k ...

Biggest % gainers: USD/CHF up 0.72%, GBP/CHF, AUD/CHF on CHF weakness.

Biggest % losers: EUR/JPY down 0.73%, EUR/USD, EUR/CAD, EUR/GBP, EUR/AUD on EUR weakness.

Oil $85.79
Gold $1,153

ECB's Stark says that they may have entered the next phase of crisis - a sovereign debt crisis and says that the ECB still views record low interest rates as appropriate.

ECB’s Stark Says Inflation Risks Seem ‘Tilted to the Upside’

USD Weekly Unemployment Claims worse at 484k vs. 439k. Reading was 460k last time.

USD TIC Long-Term Purchases better at 47.1B vs. 34.2B expected. Last time was revised down to 15.0B vs. 19.1B formerly.

USD Philly Fed ...

Biggest % gainers: NZD/USD up 0.89%, CHF/JPY, EUR/JPY, GBP/JPY, AUD/JPY on mild JPY weakness and mild NZD strength.

Biggest % losers: AUD/NZD down 0.67%, USD/CAD, USD/CHF on mild USD weakness and mild NZD strength.

Gold $1,093
Oil $81.04

Swiss President says he's concerned about the rise of the Swiss franc.

EU Summit going on right now. More clarity on Greece aid could come out of it.

GBP Retail Sales m/m better at 2.1% vs. 0.8%. Previous reading revised down to -3.0 from -1.8.

USD Unemployment Claims better at 442k vs. 452k expected and 456k last time.
NZD GDP came in "in line' last night at 0.8% BUT the previous quarter was upwardly ...