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The EUR/USD pair drifts lower to around 1.0415 during the Asian trading on Friday. Trading volumes are thin as many traders are on holiday before New Year. Later on Friday, the preliminary reading of the US Goods Trade Balance for November will be releasedAcross the pond, the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Boris Vujcic said last week that the central bank will probably cut borrowing costs again if incoming data is in accordance with its projections. The ECB has cut rates four times this year, bringing the deposit rate to 3.0%. Analysts expect policymakers to continue such quarter-point moves until it hits 2.0% in June. This, in turn, might drag the shared currency lower against the US DollarData released on Thursday by the US Department of Labor revealed that the weekly Initial Jobless Claims dropped to the lowest in a month last week. The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits declined to 219,000 in the week ending December 21, compared to 220,000 in the previous week. This reading came in below the market consensus of 224,000