Forex: Thursday's review

Yields on the U.S. two-year note fell as much as six basis points, or 0.06 percentage point, to 0.76%, the lowest intraday level since Feb 8. Ten-year note yields fell as much as seven basis points to 3.55%, the lowest since Feb. 4. 
Jobless claims rose to 410,000 in the week ended Feb. 12, exceeding the 400,000 median forecast, Labor Department data showed today in Washington.
The U.S. consumer price index increased 0.4% for a second month, exceeding the 0.3% median estimate of economists, another Labor Department report showed.
Federal Reserve officials differed last month over whether more signs of strength in the U.S. recovery would warrant reducing or slowing record monetary stimulus even as they affirmed disappointment with job growth, according to meeting minutes released yesterday. The Fed has held its key interest rate at zero to 0.25 percent since December 2008 and is buying $600 billion of Treasuries in its latest round of a tactic called quantitative easing.
The Swiss franc gained versus all of its 16 most-traded peers and the yen rose against most as Iranian state-run television said the nation will send two warships through the Suez Canal, adding to the refuge appeal of the currencies.