EUR/USD remained almost unchanged today on the Forex market after a huge drop yesterday. The market was affected by some important macroeconomic news from the United States today and the currency pair reacted with some moderate spikes in both direction. Now its trading near 1.2568.
Building permits in January fell to the annualized and seasonally adjusted level of 521k — down from 547k reported for December and slightly below 525k estimate. Building permits declined from 560k (revised up from 550k) to 466k in January — thats significantly below the average forecast of 530k.
U.S. imports prices decreased by 1.1% in January following the decline in the 5 previous month, while the U.S. imports prices increased for the first time in the last 6 months — by 0.5% in January.
Industrial production fell by 1.8% in January after declining by 2.4% in December (revised from 2% drop). It was expected to fall by 1.5%. Industrial production decreased from 73.3% (revised down from 73.6%) to 72% in January — below the estimate of 72.4%.
