November currency update
The euro started well enough but finished badly. The net result was a loss of two and a quarter US cents to the week’s top performer and a cent and a quarter to sterling.
For once, the euro zone economic data were not wholly rubbish. The bright points included greater business confidence in Italy, fewer unemployed in Germany, quarterly growth of 0.5% in Spain and monthly improvements for all five of the EC pan-Euroland confidence measures. Not all the data were positive though. Germany delivered some vaguely worrying figures with business confidence fading further, retail sales going down and inflation failing to move above 0.8%.
Inflation for the euro area as a whole did edge higher, from 0.3% to 0.4%. However, the core measure, which ignores volatile components such as fuel and fresh food, slowed from 0.8% to 0.7%, matching its record low..
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Moneycorp has been in the business of moving money between countries and currencies for over 30 years and offers money-saving foreign exchange to customers ranging from blue-chip businesses to private individuals. We make money transfers simple and help you to manage foreign exchange rate movements.
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