EUR/USD rebounds from 1.1300 area again, remains within recent ranges amid low year-end liquiditiy

EUR/USD has rebounded from its 21DMA at 1.1300 for a second successive day, but remains within recent ranges pre-year end.
On the year, the pair looks on course to post a 7.0% decline, largely due to Fed/ECB policy divergence.

Joel Frank Independent Analyst

On the final trading day of the year, a day marred by low liquidity/volumes given market closures across Europe and other parts of the world, EUR/USD has continued to find support at its 21-day moving average. The pair rebounded from a test of the 1.1300 level for a second session running and has, despite the recent closure of the few European markets that had actually been open on New Year’s Eve, is rebounding towards 1.1350. The short-term bulls won’t be getting too excited just yet given that the pair continues to trade within recent ranges and below the 1.1360-80ish monthly highs that have acted as a ceiling over the past few weeks.

EUR/USD is likely to remain subdued within recent ranges for the rest of what will be a very quiet session and looks on course to close out the month ever so slightly in the green. On the year, the pair looks on course to post a 7.0% decline. A blistering US economic and labour market recovery driven by a combination of massive fiscal and monetary stimulus has pushed inflation in the US to four-decade highs and triggered a hawkish pivot from the Fed. While the Eurozone recovery has also been strong and inflationary pressures there are also elevated, the ECB’s hawkish pivot has been much less aggressive (they will taper the pace of QE purchases in 2022, but have not yet set an end date). This has been a key factor weighing on the pair this year.

Looking at EUR/USD from a technical perspective; some technicians might argue that the pair has formed an ascending triangle in December, with gains capped in the upper 1.1300s, whilst the pair posted ever higher lows throughout the month. That suggests a bullish breakout could be in the offing, though this may cut against the fundamentals. Many FX strategists expect dollar strength to persist in Q1 2022 as the Fed winds down its QE buying to zero and perhaps even kicks off its hiking cycle. The market's reaction to what will in all likelihood be a very strong US labour market and ISM PMI survey data next week will be a good guage of the market’s appetite to continue to chase the dollar higher.

EUR/Usd

Overview
Today last price	1.1348
Today Daily Change	0.0029
Today Daily Change %	0.26
Today daily open	1.1319

Trends
Daily SMA20	1.1304
Daily SMA50	1.1387
Daily SMA100	1.1549
Daily SMA200	1.1755

Levels
Previous Daily High	1.136
Previous Daily Low	1.1299
Previous Weekly High	1.1344
Previous Weekly Low	1.1235
Previous Monthly High	1.1616
Previous Monthly Low	1.1186
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	1.1322
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	1.1337
Daily Pivot Point S1	1.1292
Daily Pivot Point S2	1.1265
Daily Pivot Point S3	1.1231
Daily Pivot Point R1	1.1353
Daily Pivot Point R2	1.1387
Daily Pivot Point R3	1.1415

Author

Joel Frank

Independent Analyst

Joel Frank is an economics graduate from the University of Birmingham and has worked as a full-time financial market analyst since 2018, specialising in the coverage of how developments in the global economy impact financial asset

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