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The euro is administered by the EU Central Bank (ECB). The ECB is concerned only with rates and maintaining price stability within the Eurozone, while the Federal Reserve and most other nationwide central banking organizations also need to consider the consequences of their choices on employment levels. They’ll put the IRs up more quickly than the FR would when prices rise, and are less certain to lower them when prices fall. This implies that changes in something similar to the retail price index in Germany will not affect EUR interest rates and that the price of the euro in the same way that a similar scenario in the States will affect the price of the greenback. Another point that’s important to remember if you are concerned in EUR trading is that although there are now 27 member nations of the ECU, only sixteen of them are members of the EMU (the Eurozone). Another 5 use the euro but aren’t official EMU members. The others have decided not to join the Eurozone for their own reasons.

In particular, the United Kingdom is in the ECU but does not use the Euro, while Switzerland isn’t a member of the ECU at all . They have retained their own national currencies, the English pound and the Swiss franc.

Additionally, many countries in the ECU have a small GDP and aren’t great business forces. Together, they produce seventy five percent of the GDP of the Eurozone.

Therefore, the forex trader who is involved in euro trading wants to watch for major industrial reports in those 4 countries while understanding that the industrial situation in other EU states will have a lot less of an effect on Euro trading.