EUR/USD Forecast: US Retail Sales not good enough to stop the pair's rise
- The EUR/USD holds onto its gains after the US released a mixed bag of Retail Sales data
- Headline sales rose by 0.6%, better than expected, but the Control Group was not that great.
- The US Dollar was on the back foot ahead of the publication and the picture has not changed.
US Retail Sales rose by 0.6% MoM, better than expected. Core Retail Sales came out at 0.2% MoM, exactly as expected. The most important part, the Retail Sales Control Group, came out at 0.4%, also as expected. However, this comes on top of a downward revision for the Control Group for February: a flat read instead of an increase of 0.1% originally reported.
In addition, the New York Fed Manufacturing Index came out at 15.8 points in April, worse than 18.80 that was estimated and a significant drop from 22.50 in March.
All in all, the slight beat on the headline Retail Sales report is not enough to stop the slide of the US Dollar. The EUR/USD is ticking up to $1.2374 after the publication, a new daily high.
The range in the previous week was $1.2300 to $1.2395. It holds onto the range in the aftermath.
Further above, the swing highs of $1.2412, $1.2447, and $1.2480 await. Below $1.2300, the lows of $1.2240 and $1.2210 serve as support.
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Markets ignored the airstrikes in Syria over the weekend. The US, the UK, and France attacked three chemical weapons installations in the war-torn country early on Saturday. By the time markets had opened, a narrative of a one-off move had already emerged. Without further strikes from the West nor a retaliation from Syria, Iran, or Russia, the focus moved on to economic data and monetary policy.
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Yohay Elam
FXStreet
Yohay is in Forex since 2008 when he founded Forex Crunch, a blog crafted in his free time that turned into a fully-fledged currency website later sold to Finixio.
