{"id":20157,"date":"2011-03-16T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20157"},"modified":"2011-03-16T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:50:59","slug":"eurusd-euro-slips-on-japan-crisis-disappointing-german-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/03\/16\/eurusd-euro-slips-on-japan-crisis-disappointing-german-data\/","title":{"rendered":"EUR\/USD: Euro slips on Japan crisis, disappointing German data"},"content":{"rendered":"

By GCI Forex Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"EUR<\/a>EURUSD Movement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, EUR declined 0.06% against the USD and closed at 1.3982.<\/p>\n

The EU finance commissioner, Michel Barnier stated that the EU cannot afford to delay proposals to restrict short selling over concerns that the measures could harm liquidity in the sovereign-debt market.<\/p>\n

In the EU, economic sentiment rose to 31.0 in March, following a reading of 29.5 in February. Additionally, employment rose 0.1% in 4Q FY 2010, after remaining unchanged in 3Q FY2010. In Germany, economic sentiment declined to 14.1 in March from 15.7 in February.<\/p>\n

In the Asian session, at 4:00GMT, the EURUSD is trading at 1.3967, 0.11% lower from the levels yesterday at 23:00GMT.<\/p>\n

The pair has its first short term resistance at 1.4037, followed by the next resistance at 1.4106. The first support is at 1.3875, with the subsequent support at 1.3782.<\/p>\n

Trading trends in the pair today are expected to be determined by data release on CPI and labor costs in the EU.<\/p>\n

The currency pair is showing convergence with its 20 Hr and 50 Hr moving averages.<\/p>\n

Forex Daily Market Commentary<\/strong><\/em> provided by<\/em><\/strong> GCI Financial Ltd<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the EU, economic sentiment rose to 31.0 in March, following a reading of 29.5 in February. Additionally, employment rose 0.1% in 4Q FY 2010, after remaining unchanged in 3Q FY2010. In Germany, economic sentiment declined to 14.1 in March from 15.7 in February.<\/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-20157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157","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=20157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}