EUR/USD: Rejected above key hurdle ahead of US Personal Spending data

Long-upper wick attached to the weekly candle is signaling bull exhaustion.
EUR/USD will likely suffer a deeper drop if the US data blows past expectations.
EUR/USD bulls need a weekly close above a falling trendline hurdle.

Omkar Godbole FXStreet Contributor

EUR/USD is looking heavy ahead of the key US data release.

The pair's weekly candle now has a long upper shadow, which is a telltale sign of buyers running out of steam above the resistance of the trendline falling from September 2018 and June 2019 highs.

The trendline resistance is currently seen at 1.1148. The pair had risen to a high of 1.1175 on Tuesday, but fell back below 1.1148 on the following day.

The pair made another attempt to scale the trendline hurdle on Thursday but failed. Similar price action was witnessed last week.

The repeated failure on the part of the bulls to force a convincing break above trendline has bolstered downside risks, which will likely materialize if the US data due today blows past expectations.

Focus on US data

The third-quarter gross domestic product is predicted to be unchanged at 2.1%. The number was revised upwards from the initial release of 1.9% to 2.1% last month. The GDP stood at 2.0% in the second quarter and 3.1% in the first quarter.

The final number rarely moves markets, unless there is a significant upward or downward change to first revision (2.1% in this case).

The GDP will be released at 13:30 GMT and Personal Spending, Personal Income and Fed's preferred measure of inflation – the Core Personal Consumption Expenditure (Core PCE) will be released at 15:00 GMT.

Better-Than-Expected personal spending and Core PCE will validate the Fed's recent decision to pause rate cuts and send the dollar higher.

On the flip side, a big miss will likely fuel dollar sell-off. The outlook for EUR/USD will turn bullish only if the pair prints a weekly close above the trendline hurdle at 1.1148.

Technical levels

EUR/USD

Overview
Today last price	1.1116
Today Daily Change	-0.0008
Today Daily Change %	-0.07
Today daily open	1.1124

Trends
Daily SMA20	1.1079
Daily SMA50	1.1081
Daily SMA100	1.1066
Daily SMA200	1.1151

Levels
Previous Daily High	1.1146
Previous Daily Low	1.1107
Previous Weekly High	1.12
Previous Weekly Low	1.1054
Previous Monthly High	1.1176
Previous Monthly Low	1.0981
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	1.1131
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	1.1122
Daily Pivot Point S1	1.1106
Daily Pivot Point S2	1.1087
Daily Pivot Point S3	1.1067
Daily Pivot Point R1	1.1144
Daily Pivot Point R2	1.1164
Daily Pivot Point R3	1.1182

Author

Omkar Godbole

FXStreet Contributor

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

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