De euro zakt weg ten opzichte van de dollar – net als, overigens, een flink aantal andere munteenheden.
Volgens Matt O’Brien is dat het gevolg van een aantrekkende economische groei in de VS, terwijl de rest van de wereld blijft kwakkelen:
Why is the dollar up so much? Well, the simple story is that the stronger your economy, the stronger your currency. The slightly more complicated version, though, is that currencies go up when monetary policy is relatively tight, and down when it’s relatively loose. Now these should just be different ways of saying the same thing — since central banks raise rates when growth is too strong and cut them when it’s too weak […]
The U.S. economy is doing well enough that it’s getting ready to raise rates, and the rest of the world is slowing down enough that it’s cutting them.