The North American trading session activity has been rather light so far as the lack of US data releases and the end to a busy week is keeping a lot of the usual liquidity at bay. The one nugget of information that was released wasn’t all that encouraging for the US housing market though as New Home Sales failed to live up to expectations of 470k with a 467k print. “That’s not that bad” is what you may be thinking to yourself on the tiny 3k miss, but the bad news came in the form of the previous data which was revised from 504k down to 466k. Strangely enough, the negative reaction has been tepid perhaps due to the fact that it not “dumpster fire bad” like this figure was back in July and August when 406k and 412k were reported respectively.
Being that we are approaching the end of the week and a lack of interest in picking a side for the USD, perhaps we could look at something that is not US-centric; the EUR/CHF. By now everyone should be intimately familiar with the Swiss National Bank’s floor of 1.20 on this pair and the habit it has of rallying strongly whenever it approaches the floor. Well, that situation has arisen once again as the EUR/CHF has gotten within 60 pips of the demarcation line.
While the potential rally on this pair may be minimal, as evidenced since the floor was set back in September 2011, traders who are willing to be patient might be able to benefit if the SNB steps in to drive it further away from the floor.
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