EURO AREA INFLATION KEY POINTS: Key News and Data Releases this Week, Download Your Free Guide for Tips on News Trading. Recommended by Zain Vawda Trading Forex News: The Strategy The core inflation rate in the Euro Area (filters out volatile food and energy prices) cooled coming in at 5.3% from a previous 5.5%. Core
© Reuters. Investing.com – The U.S. dollar stabilized in early European trade Thursday, after hefty losses this week as signs of a cooling U.S. economy pointed to limited headroom for the Federal Reserve to keep raising interest rates. At 03:10 ET (07:10 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six
Share: EUR/GBP fades bounce off intraday low but remains defensive after reversing from two-week high the previous day. German Retail Sales for July prints downbeat figures, UK Car Production improves. BoE’s Pill, Eurozone HICP eyed for clear directions. EUR/GBP fades bounce off intraday low around 0.8580 as it justifies downbeat German Retail Sales
EUR/USD daily chart The pair has put up quite a recovery this week, moving off the lows near 1.0800 after being pressured at the figure level and the 200-day moving average (blue line). Buyers are now trying to push the agenda, knocking on the door of the 100-day moving average (red line) at 1.0924 currently.
Share: EUR/JPY takes offers to refresh intraday high while reversing from multi-year high. Nine-week-old ascending resistance line restricts immediate upside amid sluggish MACD. Convergence of 10-DMA, monthly support line joins upbeat RSI to keep buyers hopeful. Upbeat Eurozone CPI, HICP data for August can bolster hawkish bias about ECB and restore upside. EUR/JPY
Share: GBP/USD prods one-month-old descending resistance line at weekly top. Looming bull cross on MACD, steady RSI joins higher high formation to favor Cable bulls. 50-DMA acts as additional upside filter for the Pound Sterling buyers to cross. Pullback needs validation from five-month-old horizontal support zone. GBP/USD buyers attack a downward-sloping resistance line
German Inflation Proves Stubborn, Narrowly Beating Forecasts Inflation in Germany proved hotter than expected, coming in at 6.1% vs 6% but down from last month’s print of 6.2%. Higher inflation in Europe complicates the ECB’s task particularly after ‘sources’ indicated that the committee is leaning more to the dovish end of the policy spectrum ahead
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Wall Street took comfort from several downside surprises in US macro data overnight, with the data taming some rate hike bets and saw US Treasury yields decline. The US two-year yields were down 11 basis-point (bp), reversing all of last week’s gains, while the 10-year yields were down 8 bp to deliver a two-week low.
Tech gremlins ate the Americas timezone wrap, I’ve included the headlines from the session here below: OK, back to the Asia session. Bank of Japan monetary policy board member Naoki Tamura spoke and dropped this into the conversation: Japan’s inflation likely to slow for time being, then accelerate moderately again Can’t rule out chance inflation
