EUR/USD is thin, traders awaiting new data
This week’s last day EUR/USD perform narrow trades between 1.5040-1.5068 as a reaction to yesterday's announcement of the head of the European Central Bank Jean Claude Trishe that the Bank will not raise interest rate and the latter will remain 1 per cent for some time.
Trishe was expected to make vociferous claims which yesterday led to growing demand for risky assets and gold. Market players assumed that the head of ECB will announce stimulative monetary policy is about to come to an end and that economic growth will be sharp and substantial. Meanwhile, Trishe declared that the economy shows a positive trend and has stressed that economic rebound will take a turn for the best in 4th quarter, having underlined, that the economy still depends on temporary measures.
The policymaker seemed to be very accurate and prudent when making his statements, especially concerning the plans to call back stimulus program, hence euro did not perform any sharp changes.
Today, on Friday Forex investors’ attention drawn to factor orders indicator in the USA for October, and also to US labour market.
In case labour market data is not encouraging enough and the number of cut-offs reaches more than-190 thousand, the key support level of EUR/USD valued at 1.4820-1.4825 would not be able to sustain the pressure, and the new path to 1.4630 will begin, though the trend would be short-term. Moreover, if correction actions are too tight, the trend may turn to 1.4360.
Meanwhile, analysts still believe euro has something in store. Experts forecast ascending trend on Forex market for European currency, as euro still has way to go and that way may be amounted at 1.5285 – 15-month’s maximum – during the forthcoming sex months in case all the economic basis for the trend remain the same: high oil prices and new gold price tops.
Forex: Dollar growth unlikely to last long
Irochka, it's nice to hear about your success, especially taking into account the ways it has been achieved =)
However, here's some information that might be interesting:
On Monday morning, despite recent strengthening of european currency, EUR was traded 1.486-1.490 dollars, having no chance to get higher that 1.4900 because the interest to USD. Dollar grows today against major currencies, and the short-term ascending trend of US dollar is not something outstanding. The only exception today is yen which partially wins back Friday’s shameful falling.
On Monday dollar is also supported by positive macroeconomic data on labour market, showing 20% against 10.2% earlier. Together with the USA labour market indicators (-11 thousand unemployed) investors have acted against former practice - they began to buy dollars. Apparently, owing to market optimism the Fed has reviewed its intentions concerning interest rate: at first it was expected to increase not earlier than 2012 but now it is predicted to happen in the middle of 2010.
Friday’s data on labour market should not be overestimated though – it was a first silver lining, a sign of recovery but still each tenth American has no job. Therefore preliminary interest rate increase is quite doubtful, as there are still problems with labour market. In addition, we shall stress, that the Fed is unlikely to embark on loose monetary policy soon - after all it is very convenient for the economy in current conditions of falling consumer demand, low inflation and absence of price pressure. Hence, the conclusion might be as follows: dollar will remain cheap for some time as its growth today was nothing else but great expression of investors’ optimism.
Today in second half of day the number of speculative transactions in the currency market can grow, as for lack of any significant macroeconomic statistics, hence, traders will cautious about performance of Mr. Bernanke, the head of the Fed, at 20:00, Moscow time. But the dollar is unlikely to break through 1.4720-1.4850 even if Bernanke’s speech is very encouraging.
Now it seems obvious that dollar’s growth this Monday is a temporary reaction; on the other hand in the next six months Euro will show substantial growth.