Sterling drops broadly today as the new government is starting step up their hard line rhetorics on Brexit. Australian and New Zealand Dollar are also weak as markets await US-China trade negotiations that start tomorrow. Expectations for the talks in Shanghai are so far rather low. Swiss Franc and Yen are the strongest ones on mild risk aversion. Investors are generally turning cautious ahead of Fed's rate on Wednesday. Dollar and Euro are mixed for now. Technically, GBP/USD's decline accelerates after taking out 1.2391 key support firmly. It's heading to 1.2154 projection level first and then 1.1946 low next. GBP/JPY breaks 133.85 support to resume recent fall, targeting 131.15 low. EUR/GBP is targeting 0.9051 resistance. Based on current momentum this level could be taken out to resume larger rise for 0.9101 key resistance next. In Europe, currently, FTSE is up 1.68%, thanks to free fall in Sterling. DAX is up 0.12%. CAC is up 0.07%. German 10-year yield is down -0.0194 at -0.393. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei dropped -0.19%. Hong Kong HSI dropped -1.03%. China Shanghai SSE dropped -0.12%. Japan 10-year JGB yield rose 0.0034 to -0.147. |
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