EUR/USD higher on soft U.S. housing data

In trading on Friday, EUR/USD was up 0.32% at 1.3398, up from a session low of 1.3334 and off from a high of 1.3410.

The pair was likely to find support at 1.3298, Thursday’s low, and resistance at 1.3452, Tuesday’s high.

The Commerce Department reported earlier that new home sales in the U.S. dropped 13.4% to 394,000 units in July, far worse than market expectations for a 1.4% decline.