Wednesday, March 23, 2011

EUR/USD 1,4170

The European shared currency weakened on Wednesday as worries about debt problems in Portugal and Ireland reemerged.

Mild profit-taking has taken place, ahead of Portugal's parliament vote on the government's latest austerity measures. The Prime Minister, Jose Socrates, has stated he will resign if the opposition fails to approve the bill.

EUR/USD has dropped toward the lowest price in 2 days at 1.4152 during the Asian session, although it has managed to bounce, trimming part of the previous losses. At time of writing, the cross is trading around 1.4175/80, 0.13% below its opening price.

From a technical perspective, Franco Shao, analyst at ForexCycle.com, said, "Being contained by 1.4281 (Nov 4, 2010 high) resistance, EURUSD pulled back from 1.4248, suggesting that a cycle top is being formed on 4-hour chart".

"Range trading between 1.4100 and 1.4248 is expected in a couple of days. However, the fall from 1.4248 is treated as consolidation of uptrend from 1.3752, another rise towards 1.4500 is still possible after consolidation, and a break above 1.4248 could signal resumption of uptrend", Shao added.

source: fxstreet.com 


24 comments:

  1. Well, I am Portuguese and I tell you this: The bill will be rejected and he (unfortunatly) will NOT resign. He is bluffing. He done that before and doing that now.

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  2. Feeling like a king with my £'s

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  3. Ah good, I was afraid our currency would rise back to that all time high and make our goods undesirable in the US. Good thing.

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  4. I think those debt problems will be looming around for a bit

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  5. Good information. I used to rely on the media for this but they like to exaggerate everything.

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  6. thanks you for keeping us up-date-ed!

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  7. Wow. A weak Europe is never good.

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  8. Why Englad don't join the € ??
    The European Union was at first economic thing...

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  9. Not big changes to yesterday i see

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  10. Thank you for the update, will incorporate it in my analysis

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  11. New budgets in most developed countries are going to make for a very unstable trading curve.

    Thanks as always for the update.

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  12. I might just want my Adsense dollars in British Pounds here soon...

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  13. seems like every country has alot of debt

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  14. Still on the climb huh? Jeez, I wish I was selling Euros.

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  15. I thought Ireland got a bailout a while back? They're still unstable?!

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