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An ECB study finds the central bank's bond-buying program lowered the euro-dollar exchange rate by about 12 percent, more than half of the euro's depreciation between September 2014 and end-2016. The program is set to exceed 2.6 trillion euros by year-end and its effect persists for a long time.
A weaker euro makes US dollar-priced feed ingredients more expensive for euro-zone buyers and can shift US export competitiveness, a modest but relevant currency driver for grain and meal prices.
bloomberg.comAlessandro SpecialeNov 14, 2018After 129 past neutral macro events, Euro (USD per EUR) moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (45% higher; middle half -0.5% to +0.5%), and +0.1% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
