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Euro Currency Trading Basics

The EUR is administered by the EU Central Bank (ECB). Because of its status as a enterprise regulatory bank, its remit is a little different than the US Fed Reserve, for example. The ECB is concerned only with rates and maintaining price stability within the Eurozone, while the Federal Reserve and most other national central banking institutions also need to consider the results of their calls on employment levels. They’re going to put the IRs up faster than the FR would when costs rise, and are less likely to lower them when prices fall. This suggests that changes in something like the retail price index in Germany won’t affect EUR rates and that the cost of the EUR in the same way that the same situation in the US would affect the price of the buck.

Another point that is important to remember if you’re concerned in Euro trading is that although there are presently twenty-seven member countries of the ECU, only 16 of them are members of the EMU (the Eurozone). Another 5 use the euro but are not official EMU members. The others have opted not to join the Eurozone for their own reasons. They have retained their own countrywide currencies, the British pound and the Swiss franc.

Additionally, many states in the ECU have a tiny GDP and are not great economic forces. Those countries are Germany, France, Italy, and Spain in that order. Together, they produce 75% of the GDP of the Eurozone.