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EUR/USD likely to stabilize around 1.10 next week - Westpac

FXStreet (Mumbai) - Richard Franulovich of Westpac believes that next week's data will underwhelm the recovery of the world's largest economy, pressing the greenback lower, which may keep the EUR/USD pair supported around 1.10 barrier.

Franulovich notes, "In short EUR should stabilize here though we are wrong if $1.10 breaks."

At the same time, the shared currency will stop its previous wave of depreciation sparked by ECB official Benoit Coeure's comments, explains Franulovich.

"[This] seems weak since the ECB will of course buy fewer bonds in summer as well and on balance the pace of purchases will continue to average €60 billion per month."

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