Canadian Dollar is trading as the worst performing one today and slightly weaker than expected retail sales data provide little help. Persistent weakness in oil price is weighing down the loonie, together with overall negative sentiment. Overnight development is unchanged that Dollar, Yen and Swiss Franc are the strongest while commodity currencies are the weakest. Sterling is under performing both Euro and Franc too. In Europe, at the time of writing, FTSE is down -0.11%. DAX is down -0.35%. CAC is down -0.20%. Germany 10-year yield is down -0.0032 at -0.490. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei dropped -0.98%. Hong Kong HSI dropped -1.84%. China Shanghai SSE dropped -1.10%. Singapore Strait Times rose 0.51%. Japan 10-year JGB yield dropped -0.0048 to 0.012. | 