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Central Bankers Talk Down Inflation Warning

January 19, 2011 at 6:31 pm

Once again the dollar is taking a pounding midweek as economists soften their views over the health of the recovery. Of particular concern are developments in the labor and housing markets where frustrations are building over the length of time it will take to fully wind back the clock to before the financial crisis. The euro is today rallying sharply even though several central bankers have attempted to wade into the budding inflation debate in order to defuse some of the tension.

Euro – With no Eurozone economic data to respond to in midweek trading, currency markets rounded up recent comments from ECB folk who have waded into the inflation debate.

U.S. Dollar – December housing starts fell 4.3% from November and helped pull the rug from beneath the dollar this morning. Housing starts fell to an annualized pace of 529,000 units from 553,000 the prior month frustrating hopes for a recovery in the construction industry.

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Euro/GBP crashes to 2-day low before Euro Zone Meeting

January 17, 2011 at 7:05 pm

The euro stumbled to a 2-day low next to the pound on Monday, among the ambiguity before the meeting of euro zone finance ministers to converse a better debt safety net.

EUR/GBP hit 0.835 throughout the European morning trade, the pair’s lowest while Thursday; the pair afterward united at 0.8358, tumbling 0.9%.

The pair was possibly to get support at 0.8312, Thursday’s low and resistance at 0.8434, the day’s high.

European finance ministers were to congregate in Brussels later on Monday to converse an raise in the efficient lending capacity of the euro zone’s rescue fund, while a final decision may only be made at a European Council meeting in the early February.

The single currency as well as came under pressure following observations by the European Central Bank governing council member Athanasios Orphanides, who said the market’s response to the ECB’s statement on increase last week was inflated

Earlier in the day, the data showed that a drop in the number of new homes coming on the market helped U.K. property prices increase in January for the first time in three months.

Property website Right move about reported that house prices rose 0.3% in January, after waning by 0.3% in December.

The euro was also down next to the U.S. dollar, with EUR/USD tumbling 0.77% to hit 1.3283.

Also Monday, markets in the U.S. were to stay closed for the Martin Luther King Day holiday.

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