How will GBP fair this week?

After a Bloomberg report suggested that the European Central Bank (ECB) were considering negative interest rates, President Draghi slowed the resultant weakening of the Euro by saying there had been no further discussions since the last ECB conference. Combined with Fridays German business confidence data, the IFO report, showing its highest level in 18 months, the Euro ended the week in strong form. As such we see GBP/EUR open at 1.1965 this morning.

 

With today being fairly light on the economic calendar front we look ahead to the rest of this week:

 

Tuesday 3.00 pm – US Consumer Confidence data

Wednesday 9.30 am – UK GDP figures for Q3 2013

Wednesday 1.30 pm – US Durable Goods Orders

Thursday ALL DAY – US Thanksgiving

Thursday 8.55 am – German Employment figures

Thursday 1.00 pm – German Consumer Price Index

Friday 10.00 am – European Consumer Price Index

 

With the US closed on Thursday and much of the US extending the holidays through Friday this makes for a very quiet end to the week.

 

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