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Eurozone inflation held steady at a record high 7.4% in April, driven by soaring fuel and food costs, the EU’s statistics agency said today, lowering its estimate from a preliminary 7.5%. Inflation has soared over the past year, first on post-Covid supply bottlenecks and latterly on knock-on effects from Russia’s …

The euro rallied on Tuesday, helped by a rise in government bond yields as well as comments from a European Central Bank policymaker in which he said a half percentage point interest rate hike is possible.Klaas Knot told a Dutch television program said he favors a quarter-point rate hike, but …

The US dollar edged lower across the board as the American currency extended the bearish corrective decline that began on Monday. Positive US data has helped the case for a better market sentiment, with global indexes closing in the green.The underlying concerns remain the same. Tensions between Europe and Russia …

ECB President Christine Lagarde has allowed national central bank chiefs a bigger say in policy meetings, asking her board members to speak less and set aside more time for debate.Lagarde has told chief economist Philip Lane and board member Isabel Schnabel to limit their presentations and leave more space for …

The US dollar briefly edged higher at the beginning of the week but closed with modest losses against most rival currencies as equity markets changed direction. European indexes closed mixed, but Wall Street managed to post gains. Safe-haven currencies posted modest gains against the US dollar as well.Economic DataThis week, …

“The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to raise the deposit rate for the first time in over a decade in July and bring it out of negative territory at its following meeting in September, despite a 30% chance of recession within a year,” per the latest Reuters poll of …

US inflation eased by less than expected in April, with an 8.3% YoY reading. The latest US data dragged Wall Street futures reflecting the market’s fears. The EUR/USD pair has resumed its decline and approaches the year low at 1.0470.The EUR/USD pair fell sharply and trades around 1.0520 following the …

The EUR/USD pair loses 0.18% on Tuesday during the US trading session, meanwhile, Fed policymakers seem to set the scene for 50-bps increases as they also eye Wednesday’s CPI data.The Euro continues to be unable to recover above the 1.0600 threshold. The shared currency has remained trapped around 1.0500 for …

It is evident that ECB president Christine Lagarde has a euro problem though weaker euro is the last thing that Lagarde needs at a time when the ECB is trying to tame hot inflation within the Eurozone. As inflation nears 7.5 percent, the fastest rate since 1999, the exhausted euro …

The British pound remains under pressure, still hit by the BoE meeting. The Euro among top performers on Friday. The EUR/GBP pair is posting a weekly gain of almost 200 pips, the best in months.The EUR/GBP rose further on Friday and climbed to 0.8590, reaching the highest intraday level since …