EUR/USD currency pair was rising today after the initial decline, but currently shows tendency for weakening. This day, as the whole week, is rather poor on reports. On Monday, though, consumer credit posted an impressive change that was three times bigger than in the previous month. Optimism for the US economy was trimmed, though, by the testimony by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Bernanke forecast that the unemployment rate will be elevated for some time, saying that “it will be several years before the unemployment rate has returned to a more normal level”. (Event A on the chart.) The report about initial jobless claims tomorrow may give suggestion as for credibility of such forecast. EUR/USD currently trades near 1.3688.
Crude oil inventories increased by 1.9 million barrels and total motor gasoline inventories increased by 4.7 million barrels last week. (Event A on the chart.)
This Monday a report on consumer credit was released for the month of October. The report showed an increase by $6.1 billion in December, compared to $2.0 billion in the month before and the predicted change by $2.2 billion. (Not shown on chart).
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