After initial decline euro rebounded in the US session. Earlier this morning
Eurozone CPI data was released. Euro area annual inflation was 0.1% in August 2015, down from 0.2% in July. In August 2014 the rate was 0.4%. European Union annual inflation was 0.0% in August 2015, down from 0.2% in July. A year earlier the rate was 0.5%.
The largest upward impacts to euro area annual inflation came from restaurants & cafés (+0.10 percentage points), vegetables (+0.09 pp) and tobacco (+0.08 pp), while fuels for transport (-0.55 pp), heating oil (-0.25 pp) and milk, cheese & eggs (-0.07 pp) had the biggest downward impacts.
The dollar climbed against a basket of currencies on Wednesday, underpinned by lofty U.S. yields after upbeat consumer spending data kept alive expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve would raise
interest rates.
Two-year Treasury yields reached their highest in over four years and long-dated U.S. yields their highest in nearly two months before a Fed meeting that starts on Wednesday.
Euro is currently being traded few points above 1.1270 level. Pair is likely to find support around 1.1230 area and resistance above 1.13 handle.