USD/CAD rebounds from multi-day low, climbs to 1.2665-70 region

Retreating oil prices undermined the loonie and assisted USD/CAD to reverse an early dip.
Hawkish Fed expectations helped cushion the USD downside and extended some support.
The set-up favours bullish trades and supports prospects for a move to the 1.2700 mark.

Haresh Menghani FXStreet

The USD/CAD pair quickly recovered around 25-30 pips from the early European session low and shot to the 1.2665-70 region in the last hour.

The pair attracted some buying near the 1.2640 area on Thursday and for now, seems to have stalled this week's retracement slide from the highest level since late September. Crude oil prices moved further away from a weekly high touched the previous day and undermined the commodity-linked loonie. This, in turn, was seen as a key factor that acted as a tailwind for the USD/CAD pair.

Meanwhile, the prospects for an early policy tightening by the Fed helped limit any meaningful US dollar profit-taking slide and further extended some support to the USD/CAD pair. The markets have been pricing in the possibility for an eventual Fed rate hike move by July 2022 amid persistent inflationary pressures. The bets were reinforced by the FOMC minutes released on Wednesday.

In fact, policymakers were open to speeding up the tapering of the bond-buying program and moving quickly to raise interest rates if high inflation persists. This followed the release of the US PCE Price Index for October, which accelerated to the highest level since December 1990. The fundamental backdrop favours the USD bulls and supports prospects for a further appreciating move for the USD/CAD pair.

That said, investors might be reluctant to place aggressive bets amid relatively thin liquidity conditions on the back of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Nevertheless, the USD/CAD pair seems poised to reclaim the 1.2700 round-figure mark. Some follow-through buying should pave the way for a move back towards testing the recent swing high, around the 1.2745-50 region.

Technical levels to watch

USD/CAD

Overview
Today last price	1.2668
Today Daily Change	0.0006
Today Daily Change %	0.05
Today daily open	1.2662

Trends
Daily SMA20	1.2516
Daily SMA50	1.2534
Daily SMA100	1.2562
Daily SMA200	1.2471

Levels
Previous Daily High	1.271
Previous Daily Low	1.2651
Previous Weekly High	1.2663
Previous Weekly Low	1.2493
Previous Monthly High	1.2739
Previous Monthly Low	1.2288
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	1.2674
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	1.2688
Daily Pivot Point S1	1.2638
Daily Pivot Point S2	1.2615
Daily Pivot Point S3	1.2579
Daily Pivot Point R1	1.2698
Daily Pivot Point R2	1.2733
Daily Pivot Point R3	1.2757

Author

Haresh Menghani

FXStreet

Haresh Menghani is a detail-oriented professional with 10+ years of extensive experience in analysing the global financial markets.

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