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A big move or a normal day? Tracking the major currencies

Exchange rates move a little every day, and now and then one moves a lot. pitforex follows the eight major currency pairs from the European Central Bank's daily reference rates and shows which moves were out of the ordinary. The European Central Bank publishes these rates once a day, and they aren't prices anyone can deal at. Everything here is information only, not advice.

Reference rates at the ECB fixing of 12 November 2026

EUR/USD fell 0.41%, 1.1 times its typical day; 1 of the eight pairs moved more than a typical day.

Exchange rates

Where the major currencies stood at the last fixing

The European Central Bank's reference rates for the major currencies at the last fixing, with each one's change from the fixing before.

The eight major pairs, ECB fixing of 12 November 2026 ECB reference rates, set at about 14:10 CET for information, not dealing. Change and multiple: our own calculation.
PairRate1-day change× a typical day
EUR/USD1.1081−0.41%1.1×
GBP/USD1.3256−0.39%1.0×
USD/JPY159.70+0.29%1.0×
USD/CHF0.8331+0.39%0.9×
AUD/USD0.6821−0.56%0.9×
USD/CAD1.4249+0.10%0.3×
EUR/GBP0.8360−0.03%0.2×
EUR/JPY176.96−0.12%0.3×

Our own calculation from European Central Bank reference rates. It could contain errors and it is already out of date.

How big each pair's latest move was

Each pair's latest move is shown against its typical day, which is the standard deviation of its daily changes over the previous 20 ECB fixings.

Each move against its own pair's typical day, ECB fixing of 12 November 2026 The vertical line marks 1×. A move of 1× is the same size as the pair's typical day: the standard deviation of its daily changes over the previous 20 ECB fixings.
EUR/USD 1.1×
GBP/USD 1.0×
USD/JPY 1.0×
USD/CHF 0.9×
AUD/USD 0.9×
USD/CAD 0.3×
EUR/GBP 0.2×
EUR/JPY 0.3×

ECB fixing of 12 November 2026 · verified 2026-11-13 · Our own calculation from European Central Bank reference rates. It could contain errors and it is already out of date.

The week the dollar rose against every major currency but the yen

The dollar's move against each major currency from 21 to 28 September 2026. We tell the full story of that week in our analysis.

Against the US dollar, 21 to 28 September 2026: five majors fell, the yen rose Each currency's change against the US dollar over five ECB fixings. Left of the line it fell; right, it rose. Figures to 28 September 2026.
Euro −0.97%
Pound −0.98%
Swiss franc −1.25%
Canadian dollar −1.14%
Australian dollar −1.59%
Japanese yen +0.25%

verified 2026-09-29 · Our own calculation from European Central Bank reference rates. It could contain errors and it is already out of date.

Latest analysis

Our most recent notes on what moved in the currency markets.

Decisions and data

You can read each major central bank's most recent rate decision on our central banks page. The newest official figures for inflation, jobs and growth in the UK, the US and the euro area are on our economic data page.

Which pairs have moved together

Each marker shows how closely two pairs' daily changes moved together over the previous 40 ECB fixings, on a scale from −1, moving in opposite directions, to +1, moving the same way. We explain how we work these out in our methodology.

Two pairings over the previous 40 ECB fixings, ECB fixing of 12 November 2026 −1: the two always moved in opposite directions. +1: they always moved together. The vertical line marks 0. A correlation of 0 means that, over the previous 40 ECB fixings, the two pairs' daily changes showed no consistent tendency to move together or in opposite directions.
EUR/USD and USD/CHF −0.51
EUR/GBP and USD/JPY 0.16

ECB fixing of 12 November 2026 · verified 2026-11-13 · Our own calculation from European Central Bank reference rates. It could contain errors and it is already out of date.