EUR/USD may retain heavy tone in Europe

Italy concerns may keep the EUR on the defensive in Europe.
The sell-off in the common currency could gather pace as the Italy-German yield spread risks printing fresh five-year highs.

Omkar Godbole FXStreet Contributor

The EUR/USD could continue trading in the red in Europe as Italy's fiscal profligacy could invite credit rating downgrade.

At press time, the EUR/USD is trading at 1.1570 - down 0.10 percent on the day - having printed a three-week low of 1.1564 yesterday.

The analysts at Goldman Sachs believe that Italy's expansionary fiscal policy stance may not go down well with the ratings agencies, forcing them to downgrade the credit rating of the Eurozone's third-largest economy.

The Italian bond markets are already showing signs of stress. For instance, the difference between the 10-year Italian government bond yield and its German counterpart jumped to 282 basis points yesterday and could print a fresh five year high above the Aug. 31 high of 290 basis points, in which case, the EUR may challenge the Sept. 10 low of support at 1.1526.

The Eurozone producer price index (PPI), scheduled for release at 09:00 GMT, is unlikely to have a big impact on the EUR pairs.

EUR/USD Technical Levels

Support: 1.1558 (50% Fib R of 1.1301/1.1815), 1.1526 (Sept. 10 low), 1.1497 (61.8% Fib R of 1.1301/1.1815)

Resistance: 1.1617 (5-day EMA), 1.1643 (50-day EMA), 1.1650 (Sept. 19 low)

	TREND INDEX	OB/OS INDEX	VOLATILY INDEX
15M	Strongly Bearish	Neutral	High
1H	Bearish	Oversold	Shrinking
4H	Bearish	Oversold	Low
1D	Bearish	Oversold	High
1W	Bearish	Neutral	Low
Updated Oct 2, 04:00 GMT

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Omkar Godbole

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Omkar Godbole, editor and analyst, joined FXStreet after four years as a research analyst at several Indian brokerage companies.

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