Forex: EUR/USD keeps the mood after NFP

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - The single currency is trading in the 1.2250/60 region after the NFP figures showed that the US economy has created 163K jobs during the month of July, beating the consensus at +100K and much higher that the previous print at +64K (revised down from +90K). Continuing with the data, US unemployment rate climbed to 8.3% in the same period, up from 8.2%.

EURUSD is now up 0.66% at 1.2259