Day: May 21, 2015

May 21
2015

Euro Shows No Bias as EU Summit in Riga Concludes

The euro demonstrated no particular bias against the US dollar and the Japanese yen as traders focused on the European Union summit in Latvia. The shared 19-nation currency demonstrated sizable losses against the Great Britain pound. Market participants were hoping that the meeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in Riga would speed up a resolution of the Greek situation. Hollande said ahead of the summit: We are not going […]

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May 21
2015

Poor Data & Fed’s Minutes Discourage Traders from Buying USD

The US dollar declined today as disappointing macroeconomic reports from the United States and the dovish stance of the Federal Reserve discouraged traders from buying the currency. The greenback was slowly regaining its footing against the euro but remained soft against other majors. Basically all Thursday’s US indicators were worse than expected, including initial jobless claims, the manufacturing index and the housing data. The notable exception was the leading index […]

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May 21
2015

EUR/USD Struggles to Keep Upward Momentum

EUR/USD rallied today as the dollar has been weakened by yesterday’s dovish FOMC meeting minutes as well as by today’s economic reports, almost all of which were disappointing. Yet the currency pair has problems with maintaining its upward momentum and is moving down right now. Initial jobless claims demonstrated an increase from 264k to 274k last week that was a bit higher than 271k predicted by analysts. (Event […]

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