Eurozone ZEW Survey rises significantly to 33.7 in December vs. 26.3 estimates

Sagar Dua FXStreet

Eurozone ZEW Survey - Economic Sentiment jumps sharply to 33.7 in December. The sentiment indicator was expected to increase slightly to 26.3 from 25.0 in November.

The German ZEW Survey - Economic Sentiment has also increased sharply to 45.8 from estimates and the prior release of 38.5. The ZEW Survey - Meanwhile, survey's Current Situation that reflects change in the institutional investor sentiment, deteriorates further to -81 from estimates of -80 and the prior release of -78.7.

Market reaction

EUR/USD trades marginally higher near 1.1760, following the Eurozone sentiment data release.

Euro Price Today

The table below shows the percentage change of Euro (EUR) against listed major currencies today. Euro was the strongest against the Australian Dollar.

	USD	EUR	GBP	JPY	CAD	AUD	NZD	CHF
USD		-0.08%	-0.26%	-0.29%	0.01%	0.03%	-0.01%	-0.10%
EUR	0.08%		-0.18%	-0.20%	0.09%	0.10%	0.07%	-0.02%
GBP	0.26%	0.18%		-0.02%	0.27%	0.29%	0.25%	0.16%
JPY	0.29%	0.20%	0.02%		0.29%	0.31%	0.27%	0.19%
CAD	-0.01%	-0.09%	-0.27%	-0.29%		0.02%	-0.01%	-0.10%
AUD	-0.03%	-0.10%	-0.29%	-0.31%	-0.02%		-0.04%	-0.13%
NZD	0.00%	-0.07%	-0.25%	-0.27%	0.01%	0.04%		-0.09%
CHF	0.10%	0.02%	-0.16%	-0.19%	0.10%	0.13%	0.09%

The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the Euro from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the US Dollar, the percentage change displayed in the box will represent EUR (base)/USD (quote).

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Sagar Dua

FXStreet

Sagar Dua is associated with the financial markets from his college days. Along with pursuing post-graduation in Commerce in 2014, he started his markets training with chart analysis.

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