Eurogroup president speaking in EU parliament 20 Feb

  • accommodative policy has played its part in recovery
  • a lot has been achieved in terms of risk reduction

Increasingly resilient ? Time will tell. Won't be too long before we get another crisis cab off the rank to put the resilience to test.

Portugal's Centeno became head of the EU fin min group on Jan 13th replacing Dutch fin min Dijsselbloem. His election was supported by France, Germany and Italy, and defeated in two rounds of votes three other candidates among the bloc's fin mins Dana Reizniece-Ozola of Latvia, Pierre Gramegna of Luxembourg and Peter Kazimir of Slovakia

Happy days, a much easier name to type !

Meanwhile USD sellers back out to play on the latest Mueller news

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