Tuesday, 9 July 2013

News can push European currencies lower



A few releases from Europe are scheduled today. From technical point of view all European currencies look extremely vulnerable, particularly against commodity currencies: NZD, AUD and CAD. Swiss Franc has already broken key supports in these pairs and is rapidly going down. Other crosses, such as eur/nzd and gbp/nzd as well as eur/aud and gbp/aud are threatening to break down any time now. What could trigger their fall?

IMF global economic outlook may trigger a sell-off in Euro and NIESR Gross Domestic Product Estimate may break the British Pound. Pound has already been hit by poor economic data today and is likely to continue going down. This is confirmed by both fundamental and technical factors. Euro is in a slightly better position, but the situation may change any time now. One of the greatest events that could turn everything around is tomorrow’s FED minutes from last month coming at 18:00 GMT, followed by FED’s Ben Bernanke speech at 20:10 GMT. 

Pound pairs should be sold on rallies. US dollar still remains the strongest currency for the time being and should be bought on dips. The fate of commodity currencies will be decided upon on Wednesday night when data from Australia is released. See you then.

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