Dollar is making a come back as US treasury yield surged after FOMC rate decision and statement. The decision to stand pat was widely expected. One surprise was probably the lack of reference to the stock market crash in October. Fed policymakers appear to be not bothered by it at all. Five-year yield closed up 0.029 at 3.090. 10-year yield rose 0.021 to 3.234. 30-year yield, though, was just up 0.002 at 3.427. It should be noted that technically, five-year yield has breached near term resistance at 3.092. 10 year-year yield is close to 3.248 resistance with strong up side momentum. Medium term up trends in yields are very likely ready to resume and that would give Dollar more upside momentum. Yen is also trading generally higher today thanks to risk aversion in Asia. At the time of writing, Nikkei is down -0.86%, Hong Kong HSI down -2.26%, China Shanghai SSE down -1.11% and Singapore Strait Times down -0.72%. Stocks in the US were soft with DOW closed up 0.04% only. S&P 500 and NASDAQ closed down -0.25% and -0.53% respectively. Commodity currencies are now the weakest ones for today. Technically, USD/JPY and USD/CAD have resumed recent rise by breaking 113.81 and 1.3170 resistance respectively. USD/CHF is on track to test 1.0094 resistance. EUR/USD's breach of 1.1353 minor support now put 1.1300 low back into focus. More upside is now mildly in favor in Dollar. Meanwhile, AUD/USD, EUR/JPY and GBP/JPY retreat just ahead of 0.7314, 130.20 and 149.70 resistance respectively We might see, at least, deeper pull back in these three pairs for today. |
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