Good morning from beautiful Hamburg and welcome to our last Daily FX Report for this week. U.S. jobless claims hit more than eight-year low and declined by 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 284,000 for the week ended July 19. It is the lowest level since February 2006. Economist had expected claims to rise to 308,000. In a separate report, new home sales dropped 8.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 406,000 units in June. It was the biggest decrease in new home sales since July of last year. Economist said the Fed will look at the claims data favorably as it considers when to raise interest rates.
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Market Review – Fundamental Perspective
The USD continues its upward trend and yesterday the Dollar Spot Index, which tracks the currency against 10 major counterparts climbed to its highest in a month. According to the Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes the dollar has gained 0.8 percent in the past month. The JPY climbed 0.9 percent and the GBP appreciated by 0.8 percent.The USD is now traded at 101.82 yen and was headed for a 0.4 percent weekly gain. It was little changed against the EUR after having risen 0.4 percent since July 18. After a report showed Japan`s core inflation slowed from the strongest level since 1982, the JPY depreciated. Japane`s consumer prices rose 3.3 percent in June from a year earlier. The GBP was set for a third straight week of losses after a report showed that retail sales rose by less than economists had predicted. The GBP was little changed at $1.6990. However it dropped by 0.6 percent since July 18.Gross dometic data is due today and may cause a reversal.
Since 2009 the AUD experienced gains which may come to end as soon as the central bank is willing to maintan its record-low benchmark interest rate. Alone, this year the AUD has risen more than 6 percent according to the Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes and was by far the best performer. Speculators assume that when the AUD falls below 93 U.S. cents, then it may depreciate even by further 2.4 percent to reach a four-month low of 90.78. The NZD tumbled the most in 11 months on Thursday after Wheeler said in his policy statement that he will postpone an increase in interest rates and that the appreciation of the NZD is “unjustified”. Due to a statistic of Bloomberg, the currency was the best performer among 31 peers over the the last five years. Now traders are anticipating a change in course.
Daily Technical Analysis
EUR/USD (4 Hours)
On Monday this week we were talking about the bearish trend of the currency pair and assumed that further losses may be likely in the near future. The chart of today shows that the EUR further lost in value against the USD and declined to the support level at 1.3454. Now we see a sideward movement and it remains to be seen whether the support level at 1.3454 will be strong enough to prevent the pair from more losses.
Support & Resistance (4 Hours)
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