At 9.02 am, the ringgit strengthened to 4.7130/7170 versus the greenback from Tuesday's close of 4.7200/7225.
"The market anticipates a series of important data will be out tonight; the US ADP employment change, initial jobless claims and ISM Index for the non-manufacturing sector could easily tilt the balance should the data be better than expected," he told Bernama.
Meanwhile, the ringgit was mostly lower against a basket of major currencies.
The local currency appreciated further against the Japanese yen to 2.9170/9197 from yesterday's close of 2.9195/9213, slipped vis-a-vis the British pound to 5.9794/9845 from 5.9628/9659 yesterday and eased versus the euro to 5.0646/0689 from 5.0556/0583 previously.
Contrary to the ringgit's performance against the major currencies, the local note was stronger against its ASEAN peers.
The local note was a tad higher against the Singapore dollar at 3.4736/4768 versus yesterday's close of 3.4737/4757. It rose against the Thai baht to 12.7937/8096 from 12.8021/8141.
It also strengthened against the Philippine peso to 8.01/8.03 from 8.02/8.03 at Tuesday's close and climbed versus the Indonesian rupiah to 287.4/287.8 from 287.8/288.1.
-- BERNAMA
