Monedge views a lot of “internals” including those pertaining to stocks, not only in the US, to find a consensus of market flows. This morning one thing catching our attention is the Nasdaq 50 index rejecting 3 months highs. It would arguably require something strong to move Nasdaq up further this week and stick. This translates to currencies like Euro which are quite largely risk on/off motivated.
just raing CB hard-working communicators
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11:45 barr – at some fireside chat
13:00 BOE’s bailey yaks
19:00 bostic moderates a panel w/collins and mester
22:00 RBNZ Official Cash Rate 22-May 5.5% 5.5%
23:00 RBNZ Governor presser post OCR
Canada’s consumer price index
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* cooled to 2.7 per cent in April, down from 2.9 per cent in March, led by the slower growth of food prices, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.
CBC – basically a gov’t mouthpiece – says abaout the CPI:
– “The Bank of Canada’s preferred measures of core inflation also eased — a happy sign for the central bank, which will make its next interest rate decision on June 5.
Many economists expect that the bank will start cutting rates at that meeting.”
BUT that is where the retail trader can game theme of what the CB suits wish to instill into player psychie and the degeree of resistance by player collective to “assimilate” or resist assimilation.
the degree of ease (or not) of assimilation to CB gang’s theme can be reflected by a few indicators such as the name of the CB interloculator, his/her clarity of insistent communication, and flow and frequency of the messaging peddlers. Reading and interpreting the FED yakkers is science of psychology and english language communication skill. That is why “they” have some alleged whisperes around like cox or kashkari or timiraos. (who, incidentally, are not perfect as messaging interpretters)
The monthly average of US holdings of US Treasuries by the Federal Reserve have dropped from roughly $5.7 trillion to roughly $4.6 trillion from roughly a year on year basis. In January 2020 the holdings were roughly $2.5 trillion. There has also been significant decrease over time of foreign buyers of bonds, especially Japan and China, with Japan having been the largest foreign buyer for some time. It is a risk management approach, with the bonds being a guaranteed asset.
If I were a CTA with a long term portfolio I would be keenly watching the 4.5% mark if/when that becomes present. It would be a significant area to either shift agendas or load up depending on which side of the fence you are on.
As I have been noting, the failure to take oiut 156.98 = 61.8% of 160.16=151.85 keeps the retracement scenario alive
On the downside, 155.99 (suggests 156.00) would need to be firmly taken out to shift the risk to 155.24 with 155.00 looming below. So far it has just been nicked.
Markets seemed to be reacting to Fed’s Waller’s comments that several more months of good inflation data is needed but the rest of his remarks were not hawkish.
I have a serious question. When do Fed officials find time to work given they seem to be making speeches all the time?
Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher Waller, New York Fed President John Williams, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, Cleveland Fed chief Loretta Mester, Boston Fed chief Susan Collins and Richmond Fed boss Thomas Barkin all speak.
So, guess where the EURUSD low has been so far today – you are right if you said 1.0850
By itself, it is just one indicator but you can see that it changed the early mood in this currency but nothing to get excited about in a 24 pip range.