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14 Jan 2015
US Session Recap: The black stuff dominates again and send the Yen higher
FXStreet (Guatemala) - With a lack of data events, the markets were once again driven by the price of oil, with crude down below the $45 bbl mark around speculation that stockpiles will increase.
The black stuff was pressured to the lowest levels in over 5 and half years before rebounding. Stocks were down again with the spill over and the Yen traded below the 118 handle again marking a new low for the month.
EUR/USD has been pressured again but stabalised at 1.1760/70 between a roundtrip 1.1753 and 1.1801. Markets are looking ahead to the ECB meeting later this month and noise on both sides of the atlantic are driving the volatility. ECB's Nowotny explained today that the inflation outlook is off target and that the ECB risk the balance sheet shrinking if nothing is doesn't about it.
GBP/USD's US shift business has been consolidating the overnight volatility post the European market's activity that had the pound offered on the UK CPI shocker vs Carney installing confidence back into the less committed bulls suggesting that rates will normalise within “the foreseeable future. We were 1.5144 lows vs 1.5191 highs.
Commodity Currencies
USD/CAD has yet to break the 1.20 resistance despite the continued bear market in oil. The pair made it just shy of the figure in late London but supply left it down through the 1.1940 neck line support of the bearish H&S, bottoming out at 1.1925 before a come back to session highs 1.1975. Meanwhile the Aussie remained range bound 0.8133/74, settling on the bid for the most part and supported on the Chinese trade surplus and strong exports yesterday while the NZD was attempting to hold on to the 0.77 handle dipping below the 0.7720 support for a second time this month.
The black stuff was pressured to the lowest levels in over 5 and half years before rebounding. Stocks were down again with the spill over and the Yen traded below the 118 handle again marking a new low for the month.
EUR/USD has been pressured again but stabalised at 1.1760/70 between a roundtrip 1.1753 and 1.1801. Markets are looking ahead to the ECB meeting later this month and noise on both sides of the atlantic are driving the volatility. ECB's Nowotny explained today that the inflation outlook is off target and that the ECB risk the balance sheet shrinking if nothing is doesn't about it.
GBP/USD's US shift business has been consolidating the overnight volatility post the European market's activity that had the pound offered on the UK CPI shocker vs Carney installing confidence back into the less committed bulls suggesting that rates will normalise within “the foreseeable future. We were 1.5144 lows vs 1.5191 highs.
Commodity Currencies
USD/CAD has yet to break the 1.20 resistance despite the continued bear market in oil. The pair made it just shy of the figure in late London but supply left it down through the 1.1940 neck line support of the bearish H&S, bottoming out at 1.1925 before a come back to session highs 1.1975. Meanwhile the Aussie remained range bound 0.8133/74, settling on the bid for the most part and supported on the Chinese trade surplus and strong exports yesterday while the NZD was attempting to hold on to the 0.77 handle dipping below the 0.7720 support for a second time this month.