EUR/CHF: live price, payout and trading hours

EUR/CHF shows how many Swiss francs one euro buys: 0.95000 means 1 EUR = 0.95 CHF. A pip is 0.0001. Switzerland sits in the middle of Europe, and the euro area is its largest trading partner, so this is the exchange rate that matters most to the Swiss economy.

That is why the Swiss National Bank watches it so closely. A strong franc makes Swiss exports more expensive, and the SNB has repeatedly bought foreign currency to slow the franc's rise. It once went further: from 2011 it defended a minimum rate against the euro, and when it abandoned that floor without warning in January 2015 the franc jumped dramatically within minutes. The episode is a lasting reminder that a normally quiet pair can gap violently when policy changes.

In ordinary times EUR/CHF often trades in fairly narrow ranges. It tends to fall when European stress drives money into the franc — the euro-area debt crisis was a clear case — and to drift higher when the region is calm. The European session is where most of its activity happens; key events are SNB quarterly assessments, ECB decisions, Swiss and euro-area inflation, and political risk inside Europe.

Sky Trade also lists EUR/CHF OTC, a server-generated price stream available 24/7 that does not track the real euro-franc rate.