EUR is likely to hold up well against the USD - Rabobank

Jane Foley, Senior FX Strategist at Rabobank, suggests that while they would expect the USD has the capacity to recover ground vs a wide range of currencies particularly if risk appetite lurches lower again, they expect the EUR is likely to hold up well against the USD.  

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“The rapid improvement in Eurozone fundamentals played a part in the weakness of the USD in 2017 as flows were drawn back across the Atlantic.  This year strong growth in the Eurozone, a relatively better budget position and the region’s huge current account surplus will continue to cast a poor light on the USD.   In the coming weeks we are expecting to see more choppy price action in EUR/USD around current levels with a modest upside bias on a 3 mth view.  Our 12 mth forecast is EUR/USD1.28.”