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The euro continued to decline for another week versus important currencies around the world as the some of the Eurozone member countries’ budget deficit is shunning investors from the region, considering the economic outlook in other parts of the world is significantly more attractive to investors.

The European single currency gained considerably versus the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen as traders considered the lack of attractiveness for the euro too strong as Greece’s budget crisis is not so serious in terms of practical consequences for the European Union’s economy.

It seems that another week of downtrends has started today for the European single currency, as EU officials suggested that Greece will have to implement a harder budget-cut policy in order to be helped by the bloc’s financial authorities to end its growing fiscal crisis.

The euro ended another week losing versus most of the 16 main trading currencies as a concrete rescue plan for several Eurozone members budget crisis hasn’t been proposed by government officials, bringing pessimism and declining confidence among traders to invest in the region.

The euro is going to finish another week posting losses versus most of the 16 main traded currencies after GDP figures published today for the European Union showed worse-than-expected numbers for the region which is already suffering from Greece’s financial crisis.

The euro tumbled today after an EU summit in which traders were frustrated by lack of initiative from other bloc’s members to help Greece to prevent its budget crisis to worsen, impacting the continent’s single currency attractiveness, as the region’s economic outlook remains uncertain.

The euro’s advance initiated by hopes that the EU would help Greece to end its fiscal crisis ended today after speculations that the topic will not be brought in the bloc’s summit tomorrow, declining confidence among traders that the Greek budget deficit’s pessimistic scenario is close to an end.

The euro rallied significantly versus currencies of its main trading partners today on speculations that the European Union will help Greece to end its financial crisis, affecting the single currency outlook in foreign-exchange markets in a positive way after weeks of pessimism.

The euro remained trading near 2010 record lows reached last week as the fiscal health of several Eurozone member countries is putting the single currency under pressure before an ECB monthly bulletin to be released on Thursday this week.

The euro ended this week posting a weekly drop versus most of the main currencies as the financial situation in several Eurozone member countries is damping demand for the single currency, after a sense of instability became predominant in the economic bloc.