{"id":107214,"date":"2020-12-14T16:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/?p=107214"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:47:58","slug":"105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"EUR\/USD holds gains at session highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>EUR\/USD pushed higher on\u00a0 Monday owing to USD weakness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The upbeat market mood, US stimulus optimism dragged on USD demand..<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>EUR\/USD\u00a0 held\u00a0 gains in European session trading\u00a0 around\u00a0 1.2150s.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After easing back towards 1.21 on Friday, EUR\/USD picked up again on Monday, supported by US dollar weakness. The rollout of covid vaccines boosted the market mood, undermining the safe-haven greenback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optimism for additional US fiscal stimulus further added to the soft tone\u00a0 surrounding the buck dragged the USD Index to fresh two-and-half-year lows, around 90.50<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A bipartisan bill for a $908 billion COVID-19 rescue\u00a0 package, which is to be introduced in the US Congress later today, is expected to be split into two separate packages in an attempt to maximize the chances of it being approved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Euro shrugged off reports that the Netherlands will announce stricter lockdown measures to stem the spread of covid. The lockdown will remain in place until January 19<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US economic calendar is quiet instead, stimulus headlines and the broader market risk sentiment will drive the USD. investors may gold back from placing aggressive directional bets ahead of the FOMC policy decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EUR\/USD pushed higher on\u00a0 Monday owing to USD weakness. The upbeat market mood, US stimulus optimism dragged on USD demand.. EUR\/USD\u00a0 held\u00a0 gains in European session trading\u00a0 around\u00a0 1.2150s. After easing back towards 1.21 on Friday, EUR\/USD picked up again on Monday, supported by US dollar weakness. The rollout of covid vaccines boosted the market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163946597,"featured_media":5509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eur","category-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EUR\/USD holds gains at session highs - Currency Live<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Fiona Cincotta\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Fiona Cincotta\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec\"},\"headline\":\"EUR\\\/USD holds gains at session highs\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-14T16:47:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":195,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/100594-gbp-eur-eu-elections-reaction.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"EUR\",\"USD\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/105037-eur-usd-holds-gains-at-session-highs\\\/\",\"name\":\"EUR\\\/USD holds gains at session highs - 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