FOREX NEWS: WEAK NFP MOSTLY IGNORED, US DOLLAR ON THE ATTACK
EUR/USD
Forex News: The U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls released Friday showed a disappointing number of only 98K new jobs and this initially weakened the US Dollar but very soon after, the pair reversed and started to move south. The Dollar was affected by a U.S. missile attack on Syria and this may be one of the reasons for the weird behaviour seen Friday.
Technical Outlook
After the initial spike up, the pair broke 1.0630 support, and exited the horizontal channel it was trapped in for the most part of last week. However, the USD had a surprising reaction to a worse than expected NFP and this makes the next move uncertain because we may see a delayed effect and thus a move up for the pair. The Relative Strength Index and the Stochastic have entered oversold territory and this increases the chance of a move up, possibly into 1.0630.
Fundamental Outlook
At 8:10 pm GMT Fed Chair Yellen will speak at the University of Michigan but the impact is hard to anticipate, mostly because of the late hour, when volatility is usually low. Nonetheless, the event should be treated with caution.
GBP/USD
The pair exited the triangle pattern even before the release of the Non-Farm Payrolls and continued lower after the report came out, so Friday’s entire trading session was bearish, a fact that could indicate that the pair will continue on a downward path.
Technical Outlook
Last week ended with the pair just below 1.2385 support after a break of the triangle pattern seen on the chart above. Today we expect to see a small pullback after reaching 1.2350 support, considering the oversold condition indicated by the Relative Strength Index and Stochastic, but after this correction we believe that 1.2350 will be broken and the pair will continue lower. On the other hand, we may see a slow, ranging session considering the lack of major economic releases.
Fundamental Outlook
The United Kingdom didn’t schedule major economic releases for today, so direction will be mostly affected by the technical side.