Today EUR/USD again showed a good level of gains, recovering from the major drop that was seen on Monday. It’s already up by almost 0.8% and is looking strong. The reason for this behavior lies in the good Eurozone fundamental data and average data from U.S. today.
Initial jobless claims report for the last week showed an insignificant drop by 1,000 compared to previous 302,000 (which has been revised up from 301,000). The analysts expected a growth to 320,000 that week.
The report by National Association of Realtors on Existing home sales in December showed a bigger than expected decline â to 4.89 million from 5,00 million in November (annually adjusted).
Crude oil inventories in U.S. continued to grow in the past week, rising up 2.3 million barrels, compared to previous value. This growth can mean a domestic demand decline and the wish to increase the inventories while the oil prices are quite low.
