Financial News on Euro

After the USA dollar, probably the second most powerful currency in the world. Wikipedia: Euro, KukaXoco: Invesco Euro Currency Trust

• Gold is indicating that the fiat currency experiment is ending globally
  - Zero Hedge, 09 October 2025

• The currency debasement trade: selling currencies such as the dollar, yen and euro, and buying gold and bitcoin
  - Zero Hedge, 08 October 2025

• Banks in Europe to launch a euro-based stablecoin in bid to counter dominance by the USA
  - Thomson's Reuters, 25 September 2025

• The euro declines in value against the USA dollar, as the recent trade deal between the USA and Europe creates fears that it will significantly hurt the economy of the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 28 July 2025

• The euro drops in value against the USA dollar, after the USA and Europe agree to a trade deal
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 July 2025

• Trump and the European Union agree to a trade deal: taxes/tariffs of 15 on imports from Europe (Trump wanted 30%, Europe wanted 10%), and the EU agreed to buy $750 billion of energy from the USA (which it mostly would have done so anyways). The 50% tax/tariff on imports of steel and aluminum from Europe will rmain in force.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 27 July 2025

• Stock prices rise and the euro increases versus the USA dollar, and gold declines, on reports that the USA and the EU will sign a tax/tariff deal imposing tax/tariffs at 15% on imports to the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 23 July 2025

• Emerging-market borrowers are borrowing more in the euro bond market at the fastest pace in over a decade, taking advantage of the rising demand for diversification away from the USA dollar, thanks to Trump's tax/tariff trade wars and hostility.
  - Bloomberg, 20 July 2025

• As the USA dollar declines in value, investors increase the demand for the Swiss Franc
  - Zero Hedge, 14 July 2025

• The foreign exchange reserves of Bharat have risen above $700 billion, giving the central bank more resources to protect the value of the rupee
  - Thomson's Reuters, 03 July 2025

• The euro is poised for best run since 2017 as the dollar's slump continues
  - Bloomberg, 27 June 2025

• BYD and other car companies based in Zhōngguó doubled their share of the car market after the European Union imposed higher tariffs on electric vehicles from Zhōngguó. They pivoted to hybrids or gasoline-powered cars that were exempt from tariffs. They began importing less-expensive models. And they concentrated on countries like Italy and Spain, where German and French carmakers are less entrenched than in Northern Europe.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 26 June 2025

• Gold us now the world's second largest reserve asset (pushing the euro down to third), after the USA dollar, but the demand from central banks to buy gold is waning. Gold in particular is seen providing long-term value and resilience through volatility, and central banks now account for more than 20% of its global demand, up from around one-tenth in the 2010s.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 11 June 2025

• A euro stablecoin to be offered by AllUnity, a joint venture of asset managet DWS and Deutsche Bank, obtains regulatory approval from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority
  - CoinTelegraph, 02 July 2025

• The executive of the European Central Bank renews push for a digital euro to counter the growth of stablecoins in the USA
  - Zero Hedge, 10 April 2025

• The reputational bankruptcy of the American dollar. The USA dollar will likely continue to get weaker, which is inflationary for the US. Let me start with some easily identifiable reasons: too much debt in the USA, cryptocurrencies, and a stronger Europe/euro
  - Intellectual Investor, 07 April 2025

• Traders add bets on the euro surging 10% more as talk ends of parity with the USA dollar
  - Bloomberg, 05 March 2025

• The euro drops from 1.035 to 1.015 but back to 1.030, after Trump threatens to impose a tariff of 10% on imports from Europe
  - Zero Hedge, 03 February 2025

• Parity between the euro and the dollar could be reached in the next six months
  - Zero Hedge, 13 December 2024

• The European Central Bank reduces interest rates by 0.25%. In response, the euro declines relative to the USA dollar, after the ECB drops a reference to a "restrictive policy".
  - Zero Hedge, 12 December 2024

• The Swiss National Bank on Thursday reduced its key interest rate by 0.5%, exceeding expectations of a smaller reduction of 0.25% amid an ongoing tussle with depressed inflation and a strong Swiss franc. More than 85% of economists polled by Reuters had wrongly predicted that the bank would implement a 25-basis-point cut.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 12 December 2024

• The Britis pound rose to its strongest level against the euro in more than two and a half years, and UK government bonds fell on the view the Bank of England will cut interest rates less aggressively than the European Central Bank
  - Bloomberg, 10 December 2024

• Since Trump's election, gold prices are down 4% and stock prices up 4%. Part of the decline has coincided with the strengthening of the USA dollar against other major currencies. Taxes/tariffs and trade wars instigated by the United States could push down the value of the euro and other currencies, and a strong USA dollar makes it more expensive for buyers using those other currencies to purchase gold. Higher Treasury Bond prices will rise to fund Trump's deficits. Fewer rate cuts would mean Treasury bonds pay more in interest than previously expected, and that in turn could hurt the price of gold.
  - Fast Company, 14 November 2024

• Currency strategists are ripping up forecasts for the euro in the wake of the US election and coming up with a new call: a decline toward parity with the dollar (one euro is now 1.08 dollars)
  - Bloomberg, 12 November 2024

• Gold just surpassed the euro as the second largest reserve asset in the world
  - Zero Hedge, 24 August 2024

• Stock markets are in Europe are cheap. Ursula von der Leyen locked in a second term as European Commission president, but the bloc's leadership may move at a slow pace. Nevertheless, companies in its member economies are poised for a rebound.
  - Barron's, 27 July 2024

• $2,100,000 - Regulators in Austria fined Raiffeisen Bank International, for lapses in its money laundering controls, the country's Financial Market Authority said on Friday, imposing a record fine of just over 2 million euros ($2.1 million)
  - Thomson's Reuters, 28 June 2024

• The dominance of the USA dollar is secure, with the BRICS country making little progress on de-dollarization. Those countries seeking to reduce their exposure to the USA dollar are buying gold.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 25 June 2024

• Swiss Franc pinned against dollar, euro, but has tailwind versus yen
  - Zero Hedge, 31 May 2024

• Investors bet against the dollar. Now they are paying the price. A booming economy in the USA is wreaking havoc in foreign currency markets.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 April 2024

• The euro extends decline after the ECB holds interest rates at highs, hints at cuts to come
  - Zero Hedge, 11 April 2024

• The euro declines against the USA dollar after the ECB cuts 2025 inflation forecast to 2.0% target
  - Zero Hedge, 07 March 2024