Euro's flight turns up pressure on ECB to act
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With the rise of the euro fast becoming a threat to economic recovery in the 12-country eurozone, calls are growing for the European Central Bank to clip the single currency's wings, either by direct intervention or a cut in interest rates.
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The European Central Bank may need to raise interest rates if euro zone inflation plateaus rather than merely rises temporarily, ECB Governing Council member Yves Mersch was reported on Tuesday as saying.
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With the European economy on the upswing, companies and governments are shrugging off the dollar's renewed slide against the euro this week -- a phenomenon once dreaded as potential poison for the continent's ...Comment
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Alan Greenspan came to the home of the euro today and warned anxious Europeans to expect little relief from the relentless decline of the dollar against their currency.
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European complaints over a strengthening euro are falling on deaf ears in Washington, where officials see a weaker dollar as a key to unwinding global economic imbalances, analysts say.
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The pound edged up against the dollar but dipped against the euro as market players awaited a speech at 5.30 pm on Monday by the arch dove on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, David Blanchflower.
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With the European economy on the upswing, companies and governments are shrugging off the dollar's renewed slide against the euro this week _ a phenomenon once dreaded as potential poison for the continent's ...Comment
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The euro's strong performance in recent weeks is worrying everyone from small-business owners to heads of state.
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European equity markets retreated this week with the banking sector under pressure as money markets remained severely constrained in spite of ongoing efforts by the European Central Bank to boost liquidity.
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The euro fell against the dollar after its 1.2 percent rally in the past week sparked criticism from European Central Bank council member Guy Quaden, who said further gains ``would be undesirable.
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European Union finance ministers pressed for action by the United States to prop up the dollar as eurozone nations expressed their deep disquiet at the parlous state of America's national finances.
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The European Central Bank has little appetite for halting the euro&#39;s climb against the dollar just yet and only very rapid moves toward $1.
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The euro fell on Tuesday after more European officials called for Asian economies, particularly China, to take on a bigger share of the dollar's weakness and let their currencies rise.
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As the euro and other currencies climb into rarefied territory, exporters are expressing more and more fear about how it will affect their businesses.
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European Union officials kept up pressure Tuesday on the United States to curb its deficits to help bolster the sagging dollar amid fears a strengthening euro would stifle Europe's fledgling economic recovery.
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LONDON  - The euro wavered after failing to pierce the symbolic 1.30-dollar threshold, as eurozone officials expressed disquiet at the currency&#39;s rise to record highs against the greenback.
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The ECB says it is ready to raise interest rates, but the euro&#39;s strength along with record oil prices and uncertainty from the US home loan crisis has delayed a hike that now looks even less likely.