Sterling is back in focus today as UK is heading into constitutional with Prime Minister Boris Johnson's move to suspend the government. Risk aversion return of risk aversion also keep commodity currencies generally soft. On the other hand,Yen is generally stronger following further decline in major global treasury yields. Though, that was shrugged off by the also strong Dollar. Technically, GBP/USD's of 1.2208 minor support suggests that corrective recovery from 1.2014 has completed. Further decline would be seen back to retest this low. EUR/GBP drew support from 0.8891/9051 support zone and recovered. Focus is back on 0.9157 minor resistance. Break will indicate completion of fall from 0.9324 and bring retest of this high. GBP/JPY could retest 126.54 short term bottom ahead if Sterling's selloff worse. In Europe, currently FTSE is down -0.10%. DAX is down -0.91%. CAC is down -0.82%. German 10-year yield is down -0.0255 at -0.718. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei rose 0.11%. Hong Kong HSI dropped -0.19%. China Shanghai SSE dropped -0.29%. Singapore Strait Times dropped -0.36%. Japan 10-year JGB yield dropped -0.0047 to -0.271. |
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