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Friday, October 19, 2012

USD/CAD beneffiting from Google TD Securities

TD Securities analysts believe the “risk off” undertone today is a resumption from yesterday's after Google's much weaker than expected earnings. “The CAD was one of the main casualties of yesterday’s late moves and it remains a notable under performer against a generally mixed USD today”, wrote analysts Shaun Osbourne and Greg Moore, allowing more CAD weakness on risk aversion.

Today's focus goes to the Canadian CPI: “Higher headline inflation is expected but core and, especially, seasonally adjusted measures are expected to show more moderate price gains”, thy added, pointing to more CAD weakness on weaker than expected data.

The pair has already got back to the high 0.98 area and trades around the 40-day MA and trend channel resistance again. “A firm close on the week—in the upper 0.98s at least would be technically constructive”, state TD Securities analysts, pointing to a break above 0.9885 to allow gains towards 0.9950.

source: fxstreet.com

Sunday, May 6, 2012

EUR/USD 1.3080

The Euro's decline against the Dollar from 1.3175 seems to have found support at the 1.3080 after falling around 100 pips in the American session on the back of rumours about Greece leaving the area and next election in the Hellenic country and France.

After supporting at 1.3080, the EUR/USD has been trading in a slight recovery to teach levels close to the 1.3100 zone. Currently the pair is trading at 1.3090, 0.45% below today's opening price action. Pair remains "Strongly Bearish" and "Overbought" according to FXstreet.com Technical Studies.

The single currency is being hammered just after the European close on rumours about certain Spanish banks insisting on another round of LTRO (LTRO3) and unconfirmed sources talking about the likeliness of Greece exiting the bloc.

source: fxstreet.com

Thursday, May 3, 2012

The market was pricing expectations of a possible lower interest rate today, but the ECB has kept it at 1%, adding that the central bank’s officials didn’t discuss the rate at all today: “Those comments fell short of expectations for more dovish ECB language or indication that the central bank was moving closer to further easing”, wrote Nick Bennenbroek, head of currency strategy at Wells Fargo Bank, pointing to the rebound of the euro, also helping the CHF and NOK.

“ECB President Draghi said the inflation risks were broadly balanced and that risks to the economic outlook were to the downside, while he also said the central bank did not discuss a rate cut at today’s meeting”, Bennenbroek added.

In the US, initial and continuing jobless claims surprised the market with a 27k and 53k drop, respectively, now at a total of 365k and 3.276M. Falling productivity by -0.5% in Q1 (YoY) and rising labor costs by 2% were also revealed today.

source: fxstreet.com

Friday, April 27, 2012

EUR/USD 1,3246

Equity markets retraced losses and are edging higher on a new risk tone after digesting the Spanish rating downgrade to BBB+ by the S&P agency and the higher unemployment rate at 24.4%. The EUR/USD also bounced from its lows at 1.3157 in mid-European session and rallied up above the opening price of 1.3223 to print its high at 1.3243.

Since then, the pair has been stabilizing around the opening price, with some upside pressure as the NY session is ahead with the US GDP data due at 12:30 GMT.

“1.3250 area is providing near-term resistance for EUR/USD. We feel the euro should be sold into rallies ahead of next week’s key economic data and political events, including PMIs, ECB meeting, and the ongoing political cycle”, wrote BBH analysts headed by Marc Chandler.




source: fxstreet.com