Dollar suffered another round of selloff this week and remains broadly weak today. Free fall in treasury yields continued overnight with 10-year yield closing at 2.081, down -0.061. 2% handle is now looking vulnerable with current downside acceleration. Tech stocks were hit hard with NASDAQ lost -1.61%, on news that US Justice Department was planning to begin an antitrust investigation into Google. Meanwhile, US formally blamed China for "blame game" in its white paper on trade. Mexico drew a clear red line in rejection so called "safe third country" options in tariff-migration negotiations with US. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard now openly called for a rate cut as insurance to sharp slowdown. These are all Dollar negative factors. Staying in the currency markets, Dollar stays weak together with New Zealand and Australian Dollar. RBA delivered the highly anticipated rate cut and hinted that more could be coming. Yen is currently the strongest one for today, but it's generally staying in consolidation except versus Dollar. It may still take some more time before Yen is in full gear again. Euro is currently the second strongest, very much helped by rally in EUR/USD. Technically, 1.1263 resistance in EUR/USD, 0.6988 resistance in AUD/USD and 1.3429 support in USD/CAD are the levels to watch today. Decisive break of these levels will be strong signal of near term bearish reversal in Dollar. That will align with bearish outlook in USD/CHF and USD/JPY too and indicates more downside for the greenback ahead. At the same time, with such development, gold could head further for a test on 1346.71 near term resistance. In Asia, Nikkei dropped -0.1%. Hong Kong HSI is down -0.68%. China Shanghai SSE is down -0.98%. Singapore Strait Times is up 0.38%. Japan 10-year JGB yield is down-0.009 at -0.101. Overnight, DOW rose 0.02%. S&P 500 dropped -0.28%. NASDAQ dropped -1.61%. 10-year yield dropped -0.061 to 2.081. |
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