Wednesday 3 July 2013

Purchasing Manager Index EU and GB



Today we had two pieces of mid importance data from European Union and United Kingdom. It was Purchasing Manager Index Services. Both releases have already come out. The data from Europe was worse than expected: 48.3 actual versus 48.6 expected. The news came at 08:00 GMT. The market did not react to that as it was waiting for the release from Great Britain. It came half an hour later at 08:30 GMT. And the data was far much better than expected: 56.9 actual versus 54.5 expected. 

A lot of British Pound pairs soared and will probably continue their ascent as market participants expect some bullish position from tomorrow’s UK interest rates event. I personally, expect gbp/chf to climb higher past 1.4500 level that is a significant barrier for the pair to proceed higher. Whether it takes this level or not entirely depends on the Bank of England position. I intend to trade this Forex news with very tight stops and expect to make some money. Interest rate decision also comes from European Central Bank. Do not forget that post event conference is more important that the release itself as the president Draghi should deliver some kind of statement about the bank’s decision as well as some kind of guidelines regarding future financial policy of ECB.

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