CAD/CHF: live price, payout and trading hours

CAD/CHF shows how many Swiss francs one Canadian dollar buys: 0.65000 means 1 CAD = 0.65 CHF. The pip is 0.0001. It is one of the less traded crosses, built from two currencies that rarely appear together in the headlines.

The Canadian dollar is a commodity currency, closely tied to oil and to the US economy, which buys most of Canada's exports. The Swiss franc is a defensive currency, supported by Switzerland's stability and its role as a refuge in turbulent times. So CAD/CHF tends to benefit from rising oil and confident markets, and to suffer when oil falls or risk aversion pushes money into the franc.

Policy comes from the Bank of Canada, which meets several times a year, and the Swiss National Bank, which holds its scheduled assessments quarterly. Canadian CPI and the Labour Force Survey, Swiss inflation, SNB statements and oil-market news are the main catalysts. The European–North American overlap is usually the most active window. Because liquidity is thinner than in the majors, the real pair can show sudden jumps on modest flows.

Sky Trade's CAD/CHF OTC is a separate generated price, produced by the server day and night and independent of oil, the BoC and the SNB.