The euro fell against the US dollar by more than a full percentage point on Friday, after the release of the monthly report of the US Department of Labor, and came to the strong, despite the pledge of the German finance minister (Wolfgang Hoblh) with the help Greece out of its financial crisis.
EUR / USD has fallen to the lowest price the day at 1.1316 in early US trading session, before recovering slightly to 1.1331, dropping it by 1.28%.
It is likely that the pair will find support at the lowest price on January 29 1.1260, and resistance at 1.1533, where the highest price for the day Tuesday.
The US Labor Department said in its monthly report released today expected that the US economy added 257 thousand jobs in January, beating expectations for an increase of Sentry 234 thousand jobs. Also been revised December number of initial reading, amounting to 252 thousand jobs to the revised and of 329 thousand jobs figure.
The report also showed that the unemployment rate in the United States rose slightly to 5.7% last month, from 5.6% in December / .dissembr. Analysts had expected the unemployment rate remains unchanged in January / January
In addition, the data showed that average hourly earnings in the United States rose by 0.5% in January, beating expectations for gains of 0.3%, after falling by 0.2% in the previous month.
The euro has found some support yesterday after he said (Wolfgang Hoblh) that the financial difficulties in Greece is the result of internal problems, but Germany will do all it can to help the Greek state in overcoming these problems.
He was speaking at Hoblh joint press conference with his Greek counterpart (Yannis Varogakis) in Berlin on Thursday.
The European Central Bank announced on Wednesday that it may stop accepting Greek bonds as collateral for loans, which means converting the burden of the European Central Bank to the Greek government in its efforts to provide additional liquidity to lenders, which will lead to increased pressure on Athens.
The announcement came after the new Greek Finance Minister Yannis Varogakis said that the ECB is trying to do "whatever it takes" to support member countries such as Greece, in his first statement after his meeting with European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.
The Greek government is seeking to ease its debt burden, and that within the current bailout program, which has a volume of 240 billion euros, sparking fears of a clash between the Greek state and its creditors, which can result in eventual exit from the euro zone Aliwanan.
Earlier in the day, official data showed that German industrial production rose 0.1% in December, which disappointed the markets in which the index was expected to rise by 0.4%, after a rise in the index rose 0.1% in November / November
The European currency also fell against its counterpart Alberatanih with low EUR / GBP shedding 0.85% to hit 0.7424.
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