{"id":19357,"date":"2012-06-17T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=19357"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:58:36","slug":"greek-election-too-close-to-call-dxy-dropping-euro-popping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/greek-election-too-close-to-call-dxy-dropping-euro-popping\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Election Too Close to Call? &#8211; DXY Dropping, Euro Popping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elections in Greece are still too close to call, but there some news headlines have suggested that the pro-bailout party has a slight edge. Even before the opening of the equity futures markets, currencies are moving around quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg provides a fixing for the US Dollar and the <!--more-->Euro (among others) and there is still a significant bid for the Euro ahead of the official election results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dxy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19364\" title=\"dxy\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dxy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Usually we get pricing starting at 3pm ET. Into that point, the US Dollar (DXY) was dropping, but the 3pm &#8220;bell&#8221; saw some movement to the upside.<\/p>\n<p>Every exit poll and prediction will move markets abruptly. Meanwhile, the fix for the Euro is up 0.41%. It was as high as 1.2733 and now sits are 1.2691.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/euro-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19365\" title=\"euro\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/euro-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elections in Greece are still too close to call, but there some news headlines have suggested that the pro-bailout party has a slight edge. Even before the opening of the equity futures markets, currencies are moving around quickly. Bloomberg provides a fixing for the US Dollar and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-19357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economic-crisis","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}