Euro Down Fastest Since December

EUR/USD unexpectedly fell today after the moderate fundamental statistics were released in the United States. This currency pair declined from 1.4803 opening price to 1.4656 making it the largest daily drop for EUR/USD since December 14.
CPI (Consumer Price Index) in December showed a better than expected growth, increasing by 0.3% — still lower than in previous month (0.8%), but above the forecasted 0.2%.
Net foreign purchases of the long-term securities in November were at quite a high level — $90.9 billion, but lower than October’s $114.0 billion.
December’s industrial production stalled with 0% change, but that can be considered a good news, because the negative change has been expected. Industrial capacity utilization dropped slightly, going down from 81.6% (revised from 81.5%) to 81.4%.
U.S. crude oil inventories last week showed a gain at last increasing by almost 4.3 billion barrels after the previous report of 6.7 billion barrels dropdown.