Weekly Currency Review: US Dollar Remains Strong As Trade Tensions Are Ebbing
Weekly Currency Review
DXY Index Price Chart: 5-minute Timeframe (from June 20 to June 27, 2018). Source: Tradeview.com
After a strong climbing since the mid-April, the US Dollar Index (DXY) surged to a level of 95 last Thursday, breaking out the November high. The index then had a pullback in the following days and reached to a low of 94.18 on June 26th, alleviating the short-term overbought that happened weeks before. The escalation in the trade tension involving the US-China-the European Union trade front threatened the demand for dollars during this slump. The index is expected to gain a rebound support at this point since along with the country’s economy and hawkish monetary policy, market also holds optimism in the positive impact that the trade restrictions brings to US economy, that is to lead a surge of domestic investment.
USD/JPY Price Chart: 5-minute Timeframe (from June 20 to June 27, 2018). Source: Tradeview.com
The demand for Yen showed resurgent since last Thursday. The risk-off sentiment continued to remain souring in the escalation of trade war fears. Markets concerned about that the risk sentiment would be deteriorated if more protectionist measures were triggered. Investors thus dump high-risk assets and buy in more this safe-haven currency. China and the EU vowed to avoid trade protectionism under the agreement that unilateral actions risked pushing the world into a recession. Bank of Japan released the central bank’s aim to stick with its current easing framework to support improvements in the employment and consuming condition. On June 26th, Japanese Services Producer Price Index (SPPI) was published at 1.0% as expected. The market risk appetite would still have impact on the direction of this pair.
EUR/USD Price Chart: 5-minute Timeframe (from June 20 to June 27, 2018). Source: Tradeview.com
The most recent macroeconomic data released from Eurozone showed a worse-than-expected situation. The Producer Price Index for April was 2.0% in year-over-year rate, below the expectated level of 2.4% with no monthly increase compared to 0.3% in April. The Senix Investor Confidence in June also came in below expectation. Despite the plunging confidence, the Euro still gained some rise with the market expectation on ECB’s tighter monetary policy. Markets are waiting for ECB’s June meeting when the end of QE program will be announced and the forward guidance would be given. In the long term, the downside element for this pair price comes from the expected higher Fed fund rate.
USD/AUD Price Chart: 5-minute Timeframe (from June 20 to June 27, 2018). Source: Tradeview.com
The Reserve Bank of Australia maintain the key interest rate of 1.5% for 20th month with seeing the weak employment rate and house sales. The market expected that the inflation is likely to remain low although the low interest rate would support the economy. The pair hit a low as the trade spat between US and China put more risks in the commodities trade. Starting this week, Australian dollar was dragged down further by the plummeting equity prices, but the currency recovered to some extent supported by surge in cruel oil prices and 700 billion Yuan in liquidity leased by China’s central bank 50bps reduction of reserve ratio requirement. The Australian dollar remain under pressure for the foreseeable future amid ongoing trade tensions.
On June 11th, for the forecasting period of 14 days, I Know First Algorithm gave EUR/USD a signal of -4.90 with the predictability of 0.2, suggesting we expected this pair would fall and gave bullish view on dollar against Euro. The actual movement was -0.54%, which demonstrated our forecast. Our algorithm also successfully predicted USD/CAD movement based on pattern recognition by providing a signal of 2.92 and a predictability of 0.29 and the actual movement was 2.85% in the forecasting time range.
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