EUR/USD recovering from the trip towards weekly lows

EUR/USD is back on the bid in late midday afternoon on Wall Street, trading 0.23% higher to 1.0570 at the time of writing. The pair was under pressure from the peak of the day at 1.0592 but it held above the 1.0495 lows. 

There is little in the way that is driving the price other than ebbs and flows within an hourly consolidation between a 200 pip range, or thereabouts. More broadly, risk sentiment has weighed heavily on the euro stemming from the Ukraine crisis and now with the Chinese COVID risks and negative contagion ramifications for global growth.  

Overnight, APAC stocks declined amid recent upside in yields and as participants digested a slowdown in Chinese trade data. ''Activity is grinding to a halt under Xi’s COVID Zero policy. Despite pledges to stimulate the economy, the measures announced so far have been minimal,'' analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman explained.  

In the currency space, DXY remained firm against G10s across the board as equity futures pointed to soft open in European markets. The Federal Reserve's path to a series of interest rate increases has weighed on sentiment in the face of a potential global recession and given the proximity to the Ukraine crisis, the eurozone's economy is under scrutiny.  Additionally, pressure on the EU to announce an energy embargo on Russia has raised questions about the economic cost to the region.

Consequently, EUR/USD sank to 1.04955 in Europe but US yields came under pressure after the benchmark 10-year note hit fresh 3-1/2 year highs as traders awaited consumer price data and the auction of $103 billion in new government debt later this week.

Ten-year Treasury yields fell 4.1 basis points to 3.083%, after hitting 3.203%, a level last seen in November 2018. The short-covering in the bond market has consequently seen the early EUR/USD dip below 1.0520 was bought and the single currency neared 1.0600. 

EUR/USD technical analysis

Technically, upside risks could be emerging with the daily dojis at weekly support. 

EUR/USD weekly chart

However, for a convincing bullish outcome, bulls will be on the lookout for a bullish engulfing close in the week that follows the Doji close of last week.