The Daily Brief
Currency markets are closed for the weekend; rates hold at Friday's close.
· as of 14:49 GST
What moved
With trading paused, the euro settled at 4.2489 AED, the strongest the euro has been against the dirham in 30 days. The British pound settled at 4.9706 AED, the strongest the british pound has been against the dirham in 30 days, while the Chinese yuan settled at 0.544873 AED, the strongest the chinese yuan has been against the dirham in 30 days. The Pakistani rupee settled at 0.013232 AED, the strongest the pakistani rupee has been against the dirham in 30 days.
Why
Markets are closed, so there is no daily move today to explain.
Corridor spotlight
Sending 1,000 AED settles at about 25,984 INR today — about 61 INR more than a week ago.
A rotating illustration across the UAE’s main remittance corridors — shown for one corridor each day, not necessarily yours. Find your own rate on the World Rates board.
This is what happened, not a prediction — we don't say where rates go next.
The movements above cover fiat currencies only, drawn from our FX historical data. Gold isn’t included — we don’t hold a clean 24-hour baseline for it. Crypto trades 24/7 and is tracked in our Crypto section, not among the fiat movers. See our Methodology.
Sources & transparency
Composed with AI from the data and named sources above, then checked figure-by-figure against them before publishing (model: Claude Sonnet 5). See our Methodology and Editorial policy.