EUR/USD: US Employment Data Set

The European Common Currency depreciated against the US Dollar, following the US Employment data set release on Friday at 12:30 GMT. The EUR/USD exchange currency rate lost 24 pips or 0.22% right after the release. The Euro continued trading at the 1.0965 level against the Greenback.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the US Unemployment Rate data, which came out better-than-expected of 3.5% compared with the forecast of 3.7%.

According to the official release: "In September, the unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage point to 3.5 percent. The last time the rate was this low was in December 1969, when it also was 3.5 percent. Over the month, the number of unemployed persons decreased by 275,000 to 5.8 million."