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Encouraging news of progress towards a third COVID vaccine supported risk assets yesterday morning, particularly sterling that rose to its strongest position since early-September.

Risk currencies rallied across the board last week, buoyed by positive news of progress towards multiple COVID-19 vaccines.

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Joe Biden has won this year’s US presidential election, but how has the currency market reacted and what does his victory mean for US policy?

As the US election and Biden's victory receded into the background, the big news last week was the very promising results in a COVID vaccine trial. Markets reacted euphorically on Monday.

EUR/USD moved back below the 1.18 level yesterday as investors continued to fret about the economic impact of rising virus case numbers in the European continent.

The dollar steadied on Wednesday as US virus cases jumped to a fresh record high and optimism surrounding the Pfizer COVID vaccine began to wane.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the Latin American region particularly hard since the onset of the crisis. Read on to find out how Brazilian Real, Chilean Peso, Colombian Peso, Mexican Peso and Peruvian New Sol have been affected.

The US dollar sold-off last week as Joe Biden won the US presidential election. Meanwhile, sterling underperformed after a dovish Bank of England announcement.

The US dollar continued to sell-off sharply on Thursday as markets grew increasingly confident that Joe Biden had done enough to win the 2020 presidential election.