FXstreet.com (San Francisco) - EUR/USD is trading in consolidation mode just above the 1.2250 area after losing the 1.2300 are the Thursday session and falling from 1-month high at 1.2440 at the beginning of the week. Currently the EUR/USD is pricing at 1.2259, 0.38% below opening price action.

Euro is in bearish mode, Shaun Osborne and Greg Moore from TDS research "think this is a challenging environment for the EUR," according to a recent article published. TDS analysts "continue to feel that old market adage of the trend (lower, in this case) being your “friend” applies very clearly with respect to EUR/USD."

Osborne and Moore "think short-term gains are liable to be limited to the upper 1.22s/low 1.23s from here and that a push below the 1.22 area in the next week or two is liable to see the EUR sell off pick up momentum again," the report concluded.