The euro today rallied from 5-week lows hit yesterday following the ECB monetary policy decision and the balanced policy stance outlined by Mario Draghi. The EUR/USD currency pair’s rally started in the Asian session driven by a shift in investor sentiment and also as a pullback from yesterday’s crash.
The euro today broke out of a consolidative phase against the US dollar in the early European session as concerns regarding Italy and the global equity markets selloff weighed on the single currency. The EUR/USD currency pair later found a floor just before the release of the latest US GDP growth data in the early American session and rallied slightly on the news.
The EUR/USD currency pair opened today’s session with a bearish outlook given the dovish outlook painted by ECB President Mario Draghi yesterday, which led to a bearish ‘outside day.’ The currency pair was on a downtrend up to the early American session when the flash US Q2 GDP report was released, which boosted the pair.
The EUR/USD currency pair today hit new multi-month lows, which were last witnessed in July, after the release of positive US GDP data in the early North American session. The pair’s massive decline began yesterday after the European Central Bank cut its quantitative easing program by half, while painting a dovish outlook for the Eurozone.
The euro today rallied higher against the US dollar extending the gains made in a rally that was triggered by Mario Draghi‘s hawkish comments at a press conference yesterday. The euro was much stronger against a weak US dollar, which was negatively affected by the political turmoil in Washington as Donald Trump‘s administration failed to repeal Obamacare.
