The Commonwealth currencies outperformed in Asia with AUD, NZD, CAD and GBP all making fresh trend highs during the session. AUD and NZD found support from better-than-expected jobs data and in Australia, unemployment unexpectedly fell. Sterling continued to benefit from EUR-GBP sales and recent moderately positive data while CAD continued to gain after the positive PMI result on Wednesday and in sympathy with the gains from fellow commodity currencies AUD and NZD. AUD traded to 0.7562 highs with Kiwi trading to 0.5918 while GBP-USD rose to 1.5155 and USD-CAD fell to 1.1631. Meanwhile, USD-JPY remains range-bound trading within 98.4-84 through the session while EUR-USD pivoted around 1.3300 with a range of 1.3275-1.3323. Asian stocks were mixed with Australia higher on the positive data and Japan catching up after a three-day closure and rising 4% but with profit-taking emerging in Shanghai and Taiwan. Oil consolidated Wednesday’s gains above $56, and treasury yields remained firm after the gains Wednesday.