{"id":19120,"date":"2011-02-06T00:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T05:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=19120"},"modified":"2011-02-06T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T05:58:46","slug":"euro-sees-fresh-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/06\/euro-sees-fresh-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro Sees Fresh Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By James McKee<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in over two months the Euro is seeing highs above  $1.38 against the USD, due in part to Germany&#8217;s tight control of  spending and efforts to control debt in countries such as Greece and  Ireland. Still more problems loom on the horizon for the Euro that will  be centered around mounting debt in other countries such as Italy and  Portugal. The mounting debt problems in certain countries within the EU  is dragging down less-burdened countries along with them. Most of the  debt has been shouldered thus far by Germany, who has taken a much more  active role at all levels in the financial systems of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>During  the initial days of conflict in Egypt the Euro fell sharply as risk  appetite dropped, and the currency saw renewed vigor as investors poured  in. The Euro has always been the stable currency above the US Dollar  but as time goes on if Europe does not find a way to address its  mounting debt the EU may find itself in serious trouble very soon.  Germany&#8217;s recent wrangling with issuing European debt that forces buyers  to shoulder European losses was a controversial move that saw much  debate world wide.<\/p>\n<p>The forex currency exchange has seen a great  deal of turbulence due to both poor financial planning and rampant civil  unrest in Europe in recent years. The temporary highs of the Euro are  just that, temporary; the austerity measures recently put it into place  across the continent have been semi-effective at best. Currency traders  should take note of the recent initiatives by foreign countries such as  China making moves to purchase the debt of countries such as Portugal.  Such moves will be required for overall financial solvency in Europe in  the near future if the continent cannot pull itself out of its debt  quagmire than the Euro will remain a risky investment.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>The author&#8217;s love of life is ultimately rooted in his drive to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forex.tradingcharts.com\/\" target=\"_new\">learn forex<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James McKee For the first time in over two months the Euro is seeing highs above $1.38 against the USD, due in part to Germany&#8217;s tight control of spending and efforts to control debt in countries such as Greece and Ireland. Still more problems loom on the horizon for the Euro that will be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/06\/euro-sees-fresh-highs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Euro Sees Fresh Highs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}