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The euro spent 19 years and 8 months above the dollar

DateEUR/USDWhat it is
31 Dec 19981.16675The fixing rate. The euro replaced the ECU one for one, so this is the dollar/ECU rate on the last day of 1998.
4 Jan 19991.1789First ECB reference rate, about 1% above the fixing rate.
27 Jan 20000.9976First reference rate below parity, 388 days after launch.
26 Oct 20000.8252All time low against the dollar.
5 Dec 20020.9991Last reference rate below parity for the next 19 years.
15 Jul 20081.5990All time high against the dollar.
23 Aug 20220.9927First reference rate below parity since 5 Dec 2002.
31 Aug 20221.0000The reference rate prints at exactly parity. Once, in 27 years.
28 Sep 20220.9565Low of the 2022 episode, and the lowest since 2002.
10 Nov 20220.9954Last reference rate below parity to date.
11 Nov 20221.0308Back above parity, in a single 3.6 cent jump.
31 Jul 20261.1485Latest ECB reference rate as this page was written.

Sources: ECB press release of 31 Dec 1998 and Federal Reserve Bulletin, October 1999, for the fixing rate and the 4 Jan 1999 print. ECB euro reference exchange rates page for 2026. All other daily rows are from Pound Sterling Live's republication of the ECB daily series, a commercial site.

The euro has a first day, a fixed opening value and a published daily rate for every business day since. It has traded below the dollar in exactly two episodes, separated by nineteen years and eight months. Parity is a headline, not a level.

1.1789Launch rate, 4 Jan 1999
0.8252All time low
1.5990All time high
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