Forex News – Euro falls after weak Spanish jobs numbers
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:13 am GMTThe euro fell 0.3 percent against the dollar within an hour of disappointing Spanish jobs data which showed the number of people unemployed in Spain rose by 2.7 percent in January. According to Spain’s Labour Ministry this brings the total number of Spaniards out of work to 4.98 million people. Spain is the fourth-largest economy in the euro zone. Last month the Spanish National Statistics Institute reported an unemployment rate of 26 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 with [..]