USD/CHF trying to eke out a small gain after a thin week, closing in on 0.9050

The USD/CHF is seeing a thin bounce for Friday, churning towards 0.9050.
The pair is holding steady after falling into the median range near major moving averages.
Up Next: On Tuesday, an appearance from SNB Chair Thomas Jordan, US CPI inflation.

Joshua Gibson FXStreet

The USD/CHF is on the high side for the week after Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell propped up the US Dollar (USD) with hawkish comments, sending broader market sentiment into a tailspin.

The USD has seen some weakness against the Swiss Franc (CHF) through October and November, and remains down 2.25% from October's peak near 0.9245.

Coming up next week, early Tuesday sees Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chairman Thomas Jordan will be delivering the opening remarks at the Third High-Level Conference on Global Risk, Uncertainty, and Volatility, in Zurich.

Later that same day will be US Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, and investors will be drawing additional focus to the headline figures after the Fed's hawkish showing this week.

USD/CHF Technical Outlook

The USD/CHF has been cycling around the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) since September, drawing out a constraining range from 0.9100 to 0.8900, but the pair's long-term bullish momentum from July's bottom near 0.8550 sees the 50-day SMA confirming a bullish cross of the longer moving average.

This week saw a decline into 0.8950 on Monday before the USD recovered into the week's midrange, seeing a bullish push on Thursday and holding steady at the top end for Friday.

USD/CHF Daily Chart

USD/CHF Technical Levels

USD/CHF

Overview
Today last price	0.9032
Today Daily Change	-0.0004
Today Daily Change %	-0.04
Today daily open	0.9036

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.8998
Daily SMA50	0.9017
Daily SMA100	0.8901
Daily SMA200	0.9001

Levels
Previous Daily High	0.9041
Previous Daily Low	0.8988
Previous Weekly High	0.9113
Previous Weekly Low	0.8966
Previous Monthly High	0.9244
Previous Monthly Low	0.8888
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.9021
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.9008
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.9002
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.8968
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.8949
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.9056
Daily Pivot Point R2	0.9075
Daily Pivot Point R3	0.9109

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Joshua Gibson

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Joshua joins the FXStreet team as an Economics and Finance double major from Vancouver Island University with twelve years' experience as an independent trader focusing on technical analysis.

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