Talks of Fed rate cut intensified overnight after comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Markets are now even pricing in 90% of a cut by September FOMC meeting. US stocks rebounded strongly with DOW closed up 512.40 pts or 2.06%. Positive sentiments carried through to Asia will broad based rallies in the markets. Meanwhile, Dollar is clearly the casualty in the turn in sentiments. In the currency markets, after this week's selloff, the greenback remains the weakest one for today so far. Swiss Franc follows as second weakest, then Sterling. Commodity currencies are the strongest ones, led by New Zealand Dollar and then Aussie. The picture for the week is similar, Dollar is overwhelming the weakest one, followed by Yen and then Sterling. Commodity currencies are strongest for the week so far. Technically, the first thing to note is that Dollar index breached 97.02 support yesterday, and the case of bearish trend reversal is building up. Both AUD/USD and USD/CAD are showing some commitment to reversals. In particular, USD/CAD has taken out 1.3429 support firmly. Focus will immediately be on 1.3357 support today. Firm break will confirm bearish reversal in USD/CAD. EUR/USD is, for now, still hesitating and pressing 1.1263 resistance. But decisive break would prompt more broad based selling in Dollar. In other markets, currently, Nikkei is up 1.77%. Hong Kong HSI is up 0.72%. China Shanghai SSE is up 0.63%. Singapore Strait Times is up 0.61%. Japan 10-year JGB yield is down -0.0188 at -0.119. Overnight, DOW rose 2.06%. S&P 500 rose 2.14%. NASDAQ rose 2.65%. 10-year yield rose 0.038 to 2.119. |
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