EUR/USD Fundamental Analysis October 14, 2014 Forecast

Analysis and Recommendations:

The EUR/USD soared gaining 68 points to trade at 1.2694 with little data and little news most attention were on comments from and about the ECB.  The US dollar index ended the week lower, breaking a 12-week winning streak, after US policymakers expressed increasing concern about the pace of gains by the ‘greenback’. The index was 0.9% lower at 85.91 by the closing bell on Friday, after 12 consecutive weeks of gains, the longest such streak since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, according to Bloomberg.

Echoing the tone of the minutes of the 16-17 September meeting, Fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer said on Saturday at the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) annual meetings in Washington: “If foreign growth is weaker than anticipated, the consequences for the US economy could lead the Fed to remove accommodation more slowly than otherwise.”

Highlighting the delicate economic situation of the Eurozone, the latest Italian industrial production figures for August came in below forecasts, with a rise of 0.3% versus July. That prompted Barclays Research to say that the Mediterranean country “will struggle” to exit from a triple-dip recession.

In Europe it’s very likely to see Euro continue to weaken against other currencies. The European Central Bank Governing Council Member Ewald Nowotny was quoted on Sunday saying “Due to the different tendencies in interest rate policies there is a great likelihood that this leads to a further depreciation of the euro,” he was quoted as saying in an interview on the sidelines of International Monetary Fund meetings.

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