{"id":66190,"date":"2026-10-06T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=66190"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:21:00","slug":"euro-hits-17-month-low-against-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/10\/06\/euro-hits-17-month-low-against-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro hits 17-month low against dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The euro fell to a 17-month low against the dollar on Monday, as concerns over France&#8217;s ability to rein in its budget deficit, coupled with last week&#8217;s sharp bond-market sell-off, fuelled fears of a potential sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The euro was down 0.37% at $1.1211, after falling as much as 0.8% to $1.116, its lowest level since May 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The single currency recorded its fourth consecutive weekly decline against the dollar, losing 3.1% over the period in its longest weekly losing streak since May 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dollar index, which measures the US currency against a basket of major currencies, rose 0.26% to 102.16, after touching 102.53, its highest level since 10th April, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The euro fell to a 17-month low against the dollar on Monday, as concerns over France&#8217;s ability to rein in its budget deficit, coupled with last week&#8217;s sharp bond-market sell-off, fuelled fears of a potential sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone. The euro was down 0.37% at $1.1211, after falling as much as 0.8% to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66192,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66190\/revisions\/66192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}