The euro was lower on Friday while the dollar rose amid geopolitical concerns.<\/p>\n
The euro remained under pressure despite\u00a0<\/span>easing political tensions in Italy<\/a><\/span>. Populist parties Five-Star and League formed a government on Thursday and received the approval from the president. Meanwhile in Spain, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces a vote of no-confidence, which is expected to pass on Friday.<\/p>\n EUR\/USD<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>inched down 0.04% to 1.1686 by 5:24 AM ET (9:24 AM GMT), hovering near a six-month low.<\/p>\n The\u00a0<\/span>U.S. dollar index<\/a><\/span>, which measures the greenback\u2019s strength against a basket of six major currencies, was up 0.09% to 94.03.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The euro was lower on Friday while the dollar rose amid geopolitical concerns. The euro remained under pressure despite\u00a0easing political tensions in Italy. Populist parties Five-Star and League formed a government on Thursday and received the approval from the president. Meanwhile in Spain, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces a vote Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}