Flash: Eurozone in focus - BBH

FXstreet.com (Guatemala) - Marc Chandler, Global Head of Currency Strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman noted Germany's latest...

Key quotes:

"German released a strong employment report".

"Unemployment fell by 28k people, more than five times more than the Bloomberg consensus expected. The unemployment rate stands at 6.8%, unchanged from the revised December figures (was 6.9%)."


" The deflationary pressures in the periphery are seen as largely desirable as an "internal devaluation" and the only way to boost competitiveness under the terms of a monetary union (and ordo-liberalism that is enshrined to varying extents in European institutions)."

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