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How Far Will the Euro Fall?
The European Central Bank has started its quantitative easing program and the US Federal Reserve is promising to raise interest rates. The only question left is how far will the Euro fall? Project Syndicate asks exactly the same question.
The US dollar is hitting new 12-year highs almost daily, while the euro seems to be plunging inexorably to below dollar parity. Currency movements are often described as the most unpredictable of all financial variables; but recent events in foreign-exchange markets seem, for once, to have a fairly obvious explanation – one that almost all economists and policymakers accept and endorse.
French President François Hollande, for one, has ecstatically welcomed the plunging euro: “It makes things nice and clear: one euro equals a dollar,” he told an audience of industrialists. But it is when things seem “nice and clear” that investors should question conventional wisdom. A strong dollar and a weak euro is certainly the most popular bet of 2015. So is there a chance that the exchange-rate trend may already be overshooting?
Will the combination of a EU stimulus program and higher US interest rates be the only factors that drive the USD EUR pair? What happens as a strong dollar weakens US exports?
A Strong Dollar: the Bane of US Exporters
According to The Wall Street Journal major U.S. exporters are already hurting because of a stronger dollar.
The stronger U.S. dollar has hurt exporters and could dampen their investment plans for next year, top business executives said in a new survey.
Two out of three big U.S. exporters–those with at least one-fourth of their total sales overseas–said the appreciation of the dollar has had a negative impact on their businesses. And nearly one-fourth of big exporters said they have reduced their capital spending plans as a result.
“We are in a midst of an ugly contest to see whether the Eurozone, Japan or Canada can depreciate the most against the U.S. dollar, and China is probably next,” said Campbell R. Harvey, a professor at the Duke Fuqua School of Business and a founding director of the survey. “U.S. exporters are being punished by these competitive depreciations and this will lead to lower profits and less employment.”
And lower profits and less employment will put the brakes on any significant raises in interest rates. Fed chairman Yellen said as much recently when she talked about very slow increases in rates starting sometime this year. So, how far will the Euro fall? It may simply depend on the competitive devaluation contest going on among major economies.
Competitive Devaluation
The issue of how far the Euro will fall may simply be a matter of how cheap the Europeans, and everyone else, want to make their currencies. The New York Times writes about a Stronger Dollar in a Weak Global Economy.
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“We are in a midst of an ugly contest
to see whether the Eurozone, Japan
or Canada can depreciate the most
against the U.S. dollar, and China is
probably next,” said Campbell R.
Harvey, a professor at the Duke
Fuqua School of Business and a
founding director of the survey.