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Risk sentiment describes the market's overall appetite for risk. In risk-on conditions investors buy growth-sensitive assets such as equities, the Australian dollar and emerging-market currencies. In risk-off conditions they retreat to perceived safety: the US dollar, the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc, gold and government bonds. Sentiment often drives currencies more than the day's scheduled data does.