The euro dipped below $1.32 on Friday morning as investors kept a keen eye on the developing situation in Ukraine. The common currency traded at $1.3182 at 6:15 GMT after U.S. economic data helped the dollar rally.
The EURUSD pair initially fell during the course of the session on Monday, but found support near the 1.35 level yet again. This area continues to bring in buyers, and as a result we feel that the market is probably going to continue to consolidate overall.
Recent falls in the yuan exchange rate against the US dollar are based entirely on market forces, a senior official said on Tuesday after Premier Li Keqiang met with visiting US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.
The USDJPY pair initially fell during the session on Wednesday, but found support at the 101.50 level yet again. On top of that supportive area, we also had an uptrend line that was tested during the session, and as a result the buyer stepped in and push the market back up.
The USDJPY pair tried to rally during the session on Thursday, but as you can see lost most of the gains by the time we closed at the end of the day. The 104 level proved to be rather resistive, so the fact that we pullback and formed a shooting star suggests that we are in fact going to see some type of pullback at this point in time.
The USD/JPY (yen) pair rose significantly during the session on Tuesday, as the bottom of the consolidation yet again offered support.We are longer-term bulls when it comes to this pair, and believe that the next significant barrier to get past as the 103 level.
We had a subscriber ask about any suggestions where to look for possible currency ETFs action. Interest rates at record rates not only in the U.S. but globally as well. Add into the mix huge amount of monetary easing like QE3 from U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks around the globe like Japan, Australia and England just to mention a few has seem have broken the system.
Gold price continued its climb higher for a second day after Federal Reserve announcement of third round of quantitative easing which weakens the U.S. dollar and in turn strengthen gold’s price as traders look for safety. The FMOC’s announcement of QE3 was more aggressive than most analysts were anticipating with a plan to purchase 40 billion USD in mortgage backed securities on a ongoing unlimited fashion until the U.S. economy
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – This morning is the day market participants have been waiting for since Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech a couple of weeks ago. U.S. Equity markets are likely to remain in a fairly tight range ahead of the Federal Reserve’s key interest rate decision and policy statement scheduled for today at 12:30 a.m. ET. Followed the all-important FMOC economic forecast which could reveal
Traders are setting their focus on 3 key events today as U.S. market session prepares to open. U.S futures are suggesting positive open with the Dow Jones fair value up by 20.64 and the S&P 500’s fair value higher by 3.34. The NASDAQ is getting nice push higher ahead of Apple’s (APPL, [stock APPL]). Fair value for the NASDAQ is higher by 9.81.
