FOREX NEWS: US DOLLAR WEAKNESS – A TEMPORARY AFFAIR?
EUR/USD
Forex News: The US Dollar softened Friday against the Euro, despite the Non-Farm Payrolls report posting a number of 235K jobs, higher than the expected 196K. The weakness was mostly generated by a drop in hourly wages.
Technical Outlook
Friday’s strong climb took the pair above 1.0680 resistance and sent the two oscillators in overbought territory. This move is likely to retrace lower and to find support at 1.0630 but if price continues higher, we don’t expect it to pass 1.0710 before a retracement occurs. Keep in mind that the NFP report was better than expected and this may trigger a delayed strengthening effect on the US Dollar, so a drop into the 50 period Exponential Moving Average is not out of the question.
Fundamental Outlook
At 1:30 pm GMT, ECB President Mario Draghi will deliver a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Labs for Innovation Science and Policy Fostering, in Frankfurt. Although the topic is not directly tied to the financial markets, caution is recommended, as always when Draghi speaks. Other than this, no major events will affect the currencies today.
GBP/USD
The pair was mostly unaffected by the Non-Farm Payrolls and remained in a relatively tight range for the entire duration of Friday’s trading session, without threatening support or resistance.
Technical Outlook
Friday’s price action doesn’t give a lot of clues about the next move and our bias is neutral until 1.2215 resistance or 1.2125 support is broken. The pair is in a medium term downtrend but the Relative Strength Index and Stochastic are exiting oversold, moving up and thus increasing the chance of a test of 1.2215. Given the lack of major economic indicator releases, we don’t expect to see a clean break of either support or resistance today.
Fundamental Outlook
United Kingdom’s economic calendar is light and the Pound will not be affected today by major economic releases.