The Euro continued the trend against the Greenback, inspite of the US producer prices showing its forecasted growth in January. The EUR/USD pair went up by 17 pips or 0.13% to been seen trading at 1.2483.
The Labour Department revealed that the US Producer Price Index climbed 0.4% in January, as forecasted. Data backed-up its growth rate with a strong increase in health care and gasoline prices, which moved up 0.7% and 7.1%, respectively. The PPI report fuelled expectations that price growth would accelerate in 2018 even with weaker correlation with inflation of consumer prices. Inflation is likely to be lifted towards the Fed’s 2% target, owing to tightening job market, weak US Dollar, as well as larger government spending and tax reform
