Market session is context
The response marks the market as open, weekend, or interbank closed. That state applies to the response as a whole.
Freshness belongs to each rate
Currencies can have different effective times. Each rate therefore keeps its own timestamp and stale flag.
Your application decides
Use the market session, timestamp, and stale state together. Do not replace a missing rate or remove its time context.
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