In a year supposedly filled with central bank interest rate cuts around the world, the prospect of another G10 policy tightening amid fresh strains of stubborn inflation is just a bit jarring.
With U.S. markets anxiously awaiting Friday’s update on the Federal Reserve’s favored PCE inflation gauge, Australia’s dollar jumped 0.5% overnight after inflation there unexpectedly accelerated to a six-month high of 4% in May with core price up for a fourth month.
Normally I loon at the USDX as a EURUSD proxy (57.6% of the index) but this time it is moving up because of USD strength with the currency up vs. all majors except the AUD (which is off its post-CPI high).
Looking at the chart, major resistane is 106.60 and for it to be seriously challengerd, EURUSD would probably need to at least take out 1.0667 and 1.0650.
As I have noted, if I was in the BoJ’s shoes, I would let stops get run above 160.16 and then come I hard with intervention but my feet are too small to fit into its shoes.
AboVe 160.16 there is a black hole that goes back over 34 years.
With the GBPUSD 9 candle winning streak broken after a failure to regain 1.27+, attention shifts to the 1.2621 low, but only if it can establish below 1.2669.
With that said, GBPUSD is a laggard as it gets support from various crosses, (EURGBP lower, GBPJPY higher).
This comes in the year of elections where the UK vote is so far not having much impact. Here is an article in this regard
Earlier today
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“Should the incoming data indicate that inflation is moving sustainably toward our 2 percent goal, it will eventually become appropriate to gradually lower the federal funds rate to prevent monetary policy from becoming overly restrictive,” Bowman said in prepared remarks for a speech in London. “However, we are still not yet at the point where it is appropriate to lower the policy rate.” – jeff cox, cnbc
At some point EurJpy is going to see 170. It is getting bids right now but it is only a matter of time. I will be a buyer on dips in Euro coming up but short side today.
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