Euro´s actual performance

The risk aversion made the euro grow for several consecutive months. Euro is nowadays weak, due to the international economics situation, which changed the investor´s point of view about the EU´s currency, changing their trust about the Euro as a strong currency. Nowadays, the risk aversion made the investors to be defensive, protecting their assets in the so called “safe currencies”, like the dollar or the yen.
Specialists are asking whether this drop of the euro is a crash, or is it simply a fall which in a short time will be a recovery. Some people believe that this drow will continue and other people think that a rise of the Euro is imminent.
After the debacle suffered by the dollar in late 2007, it has rebounded compared to other currencies. The international stock exchanges have been going down, which has incremented the risk aversion at the currency markets, which has been in favour of the yen and the dollar.
The euro today is at a crossroad because on the one hand it´s quote makes it an attractive currency at the currency market, despite that the beginning of 2008 wasn´t very good, and on the other hand the high cost is that the european currency is pressuring prices upward, resulting in a decline in purchasing power of the European population.
The actual weakness of the euro, and the rebound of other currencies has led investors to give support to the currencies that are rising up after a crisis period. It isn´t casual that several months ago, investors were desperately launched to invest their dividends in commodities (gold, wheat, corn), assets that are maintaining a steady increase in their quotes.

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