Tag: Euro currency

• Wednesday, August 30th 2017 - 08:14 UTC

  Euro at its strongest against the US dollar for the first time since 2015

  

  The Euro has hit US$1.20 for the first time since January 2015 as the prospect of a US interest rate rise recedes. Hurricane Harvey's impact has led analysts to assume the US central bank will not want to risk curbing economic growth and fears over North Korea's activities have unnerved investors.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 06:46 UTC

  A majority of Germans feel Euro block would be better off without Greece

  

  The majority of Germans feel the Euro currency bloc would be better off if debt-crippled Greece left it, a poll published in mass-selling newspaper Bild am Sonntag showed.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 23:53 UTC

  Risk of Euro breaking up is holding back US recovery, says Greenspan

  

  The risk that Europe's single Euro currency could break up is the main factor holding back the US economy, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said, though he stopped short of predicting a new recession in the US.