Your company imports olive oil from Italy to sell in the United States. As expected, the exchange rate has changed from the previous year,, which has affected your bottom line.

In preparing an annual report for your company, you would like to include a one-year currency chart from a comprehensive currency website showing the quarterly movement of the U.S. dollar versus the euro.

Download the relevant data indicating the exchange rate between these two currencies once per quarter for the past year.

Then, analyze the data and describe the pattern you see. Over the past year, has the dollar gained or lost ground versus the euro?