EUR is moving up regardless of economic slowdown

EUR/USD

The single currency hit fresh two-year highs against the dollar. Yesterday’s high made 1.3824. It is remarkable that the market should be so persistent, purchasing the euro. The thing is that Flash PMIs for France, Germany and the whole eurozone proved to be much worse than expected. Instead of increasing the French manufacturing activity shrank even more, which is reflected in the drop of the index from 49.8 to 49.4 against the expected 50.3. In Germany the situation is a bit better, but the index still failed to meet the expectations. The Manufacturing PMI rose to 51.5 against the forecasted 51.6. more…

EURUSD is ready to pierce the resistance

EUR/USD

The euro doesn’t even think to retreat. Yesterday’s correction in the pair from 1.3790 to 1.3740 by the beginning of the US session had ended with another uprise to the upper bound of the new channel. And in the Asian session today after a short respite the pair is again testing the resistance of the channel. Among yesterday’s statistics only the Consumer Confidence Index for the eurozone is of interest – it showed some improvement. However, it is hardly possible that growth of the index from -14.9 to -14.5 is the reason for the positive sentiment in regard to the single more…

Roller-coaster

EUR/USD

The payrolls caused much trouble to the dollar. The employment stats were poor enough for the market participants to sweep away all thoughts about the stimulus tapering by the Fed in the near future. Yet, the negative news on the labour market didn’t drive the markets into pessimism as stock markets were growing. The US dollar tumbled down to the 23-month low against the euro. From Tuesday’s low of 1.3660 EURUSD has already grown to 1.3790. According to the published statistics, the number of new jobs increased by 148K against the expected 180K.  The unemployment decrease to 7.2% again occurred due more…

Waiting for the payrolls and final attack on USD

EUR/USD

The dollar made at least a pause in its decline, when yesterday it failed to break above the eight-month lows in the index. Moreover, the dollar bulls even tried to attack, which spilt over into the drop of EURUSD to 1.3650 at some point. By the end of the day a part of those losses had been recouped, but talks about fresh highs in the pair are no longer relevant. Anyway, to continue the reversal players need more certainty. This certainty may probably come from today’s employment data. The payrolls, which have been detained for over two weeks, will be published more…

Classic Forex market

EUR/USD

Lull in Forex is accompanied by across-the-board growth of stock exchanges. At the end of the previous week the single currency tried to continue its upsurge towards the yearly highs, but was stopped at 1.3700. The bears managed to go off these levels by 30pips and since then the currency has been trading mainly there. In the meantime corporations from around the world are accounting for their profits. They demonstrate quite good results, which together with the opening of the US government and fewer risks of the QE curtailment creates a favourable environment for purchases of risky assets. One more observation more…