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Re: title ("lowest since 1999"):

It's actually since December 2002.

1999 is the first time the EUR reached parity with (then dipped below) the USD.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1+eur+in+usd

I'm pretty sure it was in January 2000. A few days before the 20th. Because the 20th was my grandfathers birthday and I visited him that day, but bought a Wallstreet Journal (Or Financial Times International Edition) with the headline that the euro plunged below parity for the first time at an airport either in Orlando or at the layover in Washington.

I may still have this issue in my memorandum box. But no, I won't go looking for it. ;)

Nice catch, corrected the title.

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