The Daily Brief
The Philippine peso and Indian rupee eased against the dirham, while the Swiss franc firmed
· as of 08:00 GST
What moved
The Philippine peso fell 0.34% over 24 hours to 0.059579 AED, sitting near the bottom of its 30-day range against the dirham. The Indian rupee fell 0.23% to 0.038396 AED, a bigger daily move than usual for it. The Swiss franc rose 0.21% to 4.5255 AED, in the middle of its 30-day range, while the Japanese yen fell 0.13% to 0.02302 AED, also a bigger move than usual for it.
Why
No named source explains today's moves, so we don't know why the peso, rupee, franc or yen moved as they did.
Corridor spotlight
Sending 1,000 AED gets about 16,785 PHP today — about 218 PHP 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.