Euro Weakening as Investors Avoid Risk

Similarly to last week, currency movements in all major currencies this week are likely to be dominated by economic news coming out of the USA.
There is a continuing trend of poor US data bringing down currencies seen as risky – particularly the Euro, and pushing up currencies seen as ‘safe’ including the Japanese Yen and US Dollar itself; news from the US is continuing to be seen as a key indicator of the global situation in general which means that negative data from the nation is ironically not bringing down the Dollar.