USD/CHF sustains above 0.9400 amid dismal market mood, US Employment eyed

USD/CHF has stabilized above 0.9400 amid the risk-off mood underpinned due to hawkish Fed Powell’s remarks.
Extremely hawkish Fed Powell’s remarks have confirmed that fears of persistent inflation are genuine.
SNB Jordan said that the appreciation of the Swiss Franc has protected them from imported inflation

Sagar Dua FXStreet

The USD/CHF pair has shifted its auction above the round-level resistance of 0.9400 after a whooping upside momentum post extremely hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell. The Swiss franc asset is expected to resume its upside journey towards the critical resistance of 0.9435 as investors have underpinned the risk aversion theme amid solid chances of more rates from the Fed that previously anticipated.

S&P500 futures are displaying nominal gains after a bearish Tuesday, portraying a dead cat bounce in the overall risk-off mood. The US Dollar Index (DXY) has refreshed its three-month high above 105.60 as the risk appetite of the market participants have squeezed dramatically. The USD Index is expected to remain in action ahead of the United States Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Employment Change (Feb) data.

Hawkish remarks from Fed chair Jerome Powell while addressing Congress have confirmed that fears of persistent inflation in the US economy are genuine and chances of rate pause are not in the picture. Fed’s Powell has confirmed that the central bank is prepared for more rates than previously estimated to bring down inflationary pressures.

Incoming data from the US economy is critically resilient, which is capable of halting the declining trend of inflation. Therefore, more rates are highly required to tame stubborn inflation.

Investors will get more clarity after the release of the US ADP Employment data. The street is anticipating a jump in employment numbers by 200K in February, higher than January’s figure of 106K.

On the Swiss Franc front, Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chairman Thomas J. Jordan stated the inflation in Switzerland is low in international comparison but above the price stability target of the SNB. He explained that the appreciation of the Swiss Franc has protected them from imported inflation.

On Monday, Swiss headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) (Feb) landed at 3.4% YoY and the core CPI that excludes oil and food prices were recorded at 2.4% YoY.

USD/CHF

Overview
Today last price	0.9422
Today Daily Change	0.0102
Today Daily Change %	1.09
Today daily open	0.932

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.9294
Daily SMA50	0.926
Daily SMA100	0.9428
Daily SMA200	0.9566

Levels
Previous Daily High	0.9373
Previous Daily Low	0.9305
Previous Weekly High	0.944
Previous Weekly Low	0.9342
Previous Monthly High	0.9429
Previous Monthly Low	0.9059
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.9331
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.9347
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.9292
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.9265
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.9224
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.936
Daily Pivot Point R2	0.9401
Daily Pivot Point R3	0.9428

Author

Sagar Dua

FXStreet

Sagar Dua is associated with the financial markets from his college days. Along with pursuing post-graduation in Commerce in 2014, he started his markets training with chart analysis.

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