USD/CHF hammered down to sub-0.9900 levels, 2-week lows

USD/CHF lost some additional ground for the second straight session on Tuesday.
A subdued USD demand, stability in equity markets did little to provide any respite.
Trump’s latest remarks opened the room for a further intraday depreciating move.

Haresh Menghani FXStreet

The USD/CHF pair witnessed some follow-through selling on Tuesday and dropped to near two-week lows, below the 0.9900 handle in the last hour.

Having repeatedly failed to find acceptance above the parity mark, the pair came under some aggressive selling pressure on the first day of a new trading week and was being weighed down by a combination of negative forces.

Trade uncertainty continues to exert pressure

The US President Donald Trump's decision to re-impose tariffs on steel and aluminium from Brazil and Argentina weighed on the global risk sentiment and provided a goodish lift to the Swiss franc's perceived safe-haven status.

Adding to this, the US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said that Trump is willing to increase tariffs on Chinese goods if there is no deal and further raised uncertainty over a potential trade deal between the world's two largest economies.

Apart from the latest trade-related developments, Monday's disappointing US ISM Manufacturing PMI prompted some fresh US dollar selling and further collaborated to the pair's sharp intraday downfall of nearly 100 pips.

The bearish pressure remained unabated through the early European session on Tuesday on the back of a subdued USD demand and seemed rather unaffected by some signs of stability/slightly positive mood in the global equity markets.

Meanwhile, Trump's not so optimistic trade-related comments, saying that China deal may come after next year's election, aggravated the selling pressure and seemed to have paved the way for a further intraday slide amid absent relevant market moving economic releases from the US.

Technical levels to watch

USD/CHF

Overview
Today last price	0.9888
Today Daily Change	-0.0024
Today Daily Change %	-0.24
Today daily open	0.9912

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.9938
Daily SMA50	0.993
Daily SMA100	0.9888
Daily SMA200	0.9948

Levels
Previous Daily High	1.0009
Previous Daily Low	0.9911
Previous Weekly High	1.0024
Previous Weekly Low	0.9954
Previous Monthly High	1.0024
Previous Monthly Low	0.985
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.9948
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.9972
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.9879
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.9846
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.9781
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.9977
Daily Pivot Point R2	1.0042
Daily Pivot Point R3	1.0075

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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