USDCAD — earlier pricing zigzag
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justin’ fin min freeland, around 9am this morning and before her financial conditions update at 16hrs this afternoon has announced her resignation.
All sorts of speculations flying around about her discontent leading to her resignation; now lots of pundit yikayak about mark carney slithering in.
Bottom Line is that the federal debt is way way over the propagandized 40 billion, likely priced in atm
(Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets by Amanda Cooper.
Bitcoin is back in the headlines today, having vaulted above $105,000 for the first time on record, after a nod from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to make crypto great again. In an interview on Thursday with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Trump suggested he could go ahead with plans to create a strategic bitcoin reserve, much like the country’s strategic oil reserve.
“We’re gonna do something great with crypto because we don’t want China or anybody else – not just China but others are embracing it – and we want to be the head,” Trump said.
Let me preface this by saying I have never traded a crypto and probably never will but it is hard to ignore this part of the Trump Trade and a new record high (106661).
Rather than look at specific technical levels given the volatility, I prefer to use pivotal levels. In this regard, 105K needs to become support to suggest 108-100K as a target.
Below 100-102K would be needed to suggest a p\ause.
Using my platform as a heatmap shows modest moves so far with GBP and CHF (odd bedfellows) outperforming, EURUSD showing little change, and USDJPY up a touch while JPY is weaker on crosses.
1.05, which traded Tuesday-Friday last week, has been extended to 5 days in a row on Monday. Range is limited while this pattern continues but the longer it goes on the greater the risk of a directional move once it is broken.
This is similar to the recent USDJPY pattern around 150 and you can see what happened after that pattern was broken,
In the meantime, there is a double top at 1.0524 ahead of resistance at 1.0531-39.
On the downside, 1.0480 blocks last week’s 1.0453 low.
nOTE, THE 2 PILLARS OF EURUSD SUPPORT WERE EURGBP AND EURJPY. EURGBP is weaker today so more of a weight on EURUSD than support. EURJPY is still trading with a bid.
The upcoming week is filled with key events highlighted by central bank monetary policy decisions in the U.S., Japan and UK as well as a full economic calendar.