Euro registers minor losses

The Euro registers losses versus the US Dollar early in the North American session, edges lower 0.12%, and trades at around 1.0837. A risk-off impulse, as witnessed by Wall Street’s posting losses and US Treasury bond yields rise, supports the Greenback’s recovery.

Data-wise, the US economic docket featured Durable Goods Orders for January, which plunged more than the -4.5% contraction, down -6.1% MoM, below December’s -0.3% drop. Non-defense capital goods orders, excluding aircraft, used as a proxy for business spending, edged up 0.1% after a revised decline in December of -0.6%. Lately, housing data from the US, namely the S&P/Case Shiller Home Prices, edged lower -0.3% MoM in December, worse than November’s -0.2% contraction. Annually based figures edged up by 6.1%, exceeding estimates and the previous month’s data.

Across the pond, GfK revealed that German consumer sentiment stabilized at lower levels in March, coming at -29.0, a tick higher than February’s -29.7. Rolf Buerkl, consumer expert at the NIM noted “There is great uncertainty among consumers. In addition to the constantly rising prices, the weaker economic forecasts for the German economy this year are likely to be another important reason for this.”

At the same time, Eurozone (EU) lending halted in January, as the European Central Bank (ECB) reported that M3 annual growth was 0.1% less than estimates of 0.3%.

Recently, some European Central Bank (ECB) speakers, led by President Lagarde, had expressed that the inflation battle hasn’t been won. ECB’s Governing Council Stournaras said the ECB doesn’t have enough data on rate cuts until June, and when the time comes, the ECB will move gradually towards easing policy.

Ahead in the week, the EU’s docket will feature the Economic Sentiment Index. In the US, the second estimate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Fed speakers could spark some volatility in the EUR/USD pair.