ANOTHER SURPRISING CHART… OF THE EURO In yesterday's Market Notes, we took a surprising look at commodity prices. Despite the widespread belief in the commodity "supercycle," commodity prices have drifted sideways for nine years.
Today, we feature another surprising sideways chart. This one displays the euro.
Read financial newspapers for more than a month, and you're bound to read about how bad things are in Europe. Unemployment rates are high. Socialist governments are deeply in debt and choking off entrepreneurship.
These negative factors might be bad for the euro in the future. But they haven't dented its value over the long term.
As you can see from the eight-year chart below, the euro has been through several big rallies and several big declines. All this action hasn't produced a lower value, however. The euro is actually worth a bit more than it was in 2005.
Source:
www.dailywealth.com
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