Daily FX Rambles

Andy Harrison

Good morning,

 

NYK CLOSE

EUR                        1.31584

GBP                       1.61322

JPY                         81.188

CHF                        0.91349

AUD                       1.03212

NZD                       0.8127

CAD                       0.99104

EURCHF                1.20203

EURGBP               0.81564

EURJPY                 106.827


Harry Hindsight

French elections became predictable, as it’s a two horse race with the usual far right having the possibility to be king maker add to which poor PMI figures overall left the Euro’s looking sick, from the slow drift from Asia the London market extended the moves lower trading down towards that 1.3100 level before buying appeared to hold the market, once we reached those lows the market began a slow move higher during the remaining US session moving back to the mid 1.31’s worries are again beginning to increase over the debt rid European countries but for the moment its still guesswork. GBP initially falling with the Euro but found buyers around the 1.6080 level and became a ranging market for several of the early hours moving between 1.6080 and 1.6115 before finding USD weakness in the NYK session and moving back up firmly above the 1.6100 to its closing levels. AUD, mirrored the movement of the Euro drifting further from the Asian move touching briefly below 1.0280 before moving back up in line with the Euro to finish just above the 1.0320 level. USDJPY, the Asian EURJPY selling continued into London, having been started initially by exporters in Japan the market continued into the early part of the London session before finding some support in USDJPY at around the 81.00 having dipped just below the level the rest of the session was extremely quiet with the range being  little more than 10tics for the next 11 hours.

Yesterday’s premiership results

Actual                   Consensus                          Previous              Revised   

01:30    AUD     PPI Q/Q Q1      

-0.30%              0.50%                           0.30%  

01:30    AUD     PPI Y/Y Q1      

1.40%               2.20%                           2.90%  

02:30    CNY     HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI Apr      

49.1                                                      48.3     

07:00    EUR     French PMI Manufacturing Apr P           

47.3                  47.4                              46.7     

07:00    EUR     French PMI Services Apr P       

46.4                  50.1                              50.1     

07:30    EUR     German PMI Manufacturing Apr A         

46.3                  49                                 48.4     

07:30    EUR     German PMI Services Apr A      

52.6                  52.3                              52.1     

08:00    EUR     Eurozone PMI Manufacturing Apr A       

46                     48.1                              47.7     

08:00    EUR     Eurozone PMI Services Apr A   

47.9                  49.3                              49.2     

12:30    CAD     Wholesale Sales M/M Feb        

1.60%               -0.50%                          -1.00%   

 

For today

USDJPY
Topside : 81.30-81.50 (decent offers) 81.60-81.80 (medium buy stops) 82.00-82.20 (medium offers)
Downside : 80.60-80.80 (medium bids) 80.20-80.50 (decent bids) 79.80-80.10 (light bids) 

EURUSD
Topside : 1.3160-1.3180 (light offers) 1.3200-1.3230 (light buy stops) 1.3250-1.3280 (light buy stops) 
Downside : 1.3110-1.3120 (Gamma Bids) 1.3070-1.3100 (light bids) 1.3020-1.3050 (light sell stops) 

EURJPY
Topside : 107.00-107.20 (light buy stops) 107.50-107.80 (light offers)
Downside : 106.00-106.50 (light bids) AUDUSD
Topside : 1.0310 (weak buy stops) 1.0350-1.0380 (medium buy stops) 1.0400-1.0430 (medium buy stops) 1.0450-1.0480 (decent offers)
Downside : 1.0250 (light bids) 1.0200-1.0230 (medium bids) 

 

Euro’s had a tight range between 1.3145/55 for the most part even with the drop in AUD, euro’s did next to nothing and stood still, GBP why change anything read the previous sentence about the Euro and change the price to 1.6115/28 and you have the gist of it. Volumes on both seem less than yesterday. AUD was the mover of the day with those wonderful CPI figures the market is now leaning towards the next RBA meeting as a cut in interest, the initial reaction to the figures was a move from 1.0320 down to 1.0275 then a slow movement the balance of the way to the 1.0250 level where we again see some support, exporters seem the most likely buyers here which would with forward pips for one year would be buying below parity and attractive in the long run. USDJPY traded lower as AUDJPY retail carry traders came under pressure when the AUD dropped and the forward points moved to the left or became less profitable.

CNY:

China bank regulator: risk of recession in Euro zone rising

Europe’s debt crisis unlikely to be solved soon

China Forex Regulator Reiterates Fight Against Hot Money Flows 

China Bank Regulator: To Prevent Property Credit Risks 

China mulls policies to benefit first-home buyers-paper 

China grants $700 mio new quota to foreign investors 

AUD:

Australia inflation surprisingly low, opens door to rate cut 

Australia’s PM Says Economic Fundamentals Are Strong 

Australia Treasurer: budget surplus to give RBA flexibility

JPY: Japan Fin Min Azumi: No Conflict Between BRICs, Japan Over IMF Contributions

Japan econ minister: hope BOJ pursues powerful easing

NZD:

NZ central bank should keep rate steady -NZIER Board

New Zealand posts small migration gain in March

NZ credit card billings slow in March – RBNZ

 

 

Actual                   Consensus                          Previous              Revised  

23:50    JPY      Corporate Service Price Y/Y Mar           

-0.30%              -0.60%                          -0.60% 

1:30      AUD     CPI Q/Q Q1      

0.10%               0.70%                           0.00%  

1:30      AUD     CPI Y/Y Q1      

1.60%               2.20%                           3.10%  

1:30      AUD     CPI RBA Trimmed Mean Q/Q Q1           

0.30%               0.60%                           0.60%  

1:30      AUD     CPI RBA Trimmed Mean Y/Y Q1 2.20%  

2.40%                                                   2.60%  

1:30      AUD     CPI RBA Weighted Median Q/Q Q1       

0.40%               0.60%                           0.50%  

1:30      AUD     CPI RBA Weighted Median Y/Y Q1        

2.10%               2.30%                           2.60%  

2:00      CNY     Conference Board Leading Index          

0.80%               0.80%                           1.00%

 

Today’s data

Consensus                           Previous  

6:00      CHF      Trade Balance (CHF) Mar                      

3.00B                            2.68B   

6:00      CHF      UBS Consumption Indicator Mar                                   

0.87     

8:30      GBP     Public Sector Net Borrowing (GBP) Mar             

14.2B                            12.9B   

12:30    CAD     Retail Sales M/M Feb               

0.20%                           0.50%  

12:30    CAD     Retail Sales Less Autos M/M Feb                      

0.80%                           -0.50% 

13:00    USD     S&P/Case-Shiller Composite-20 Y/Y Feb                       

-3.50%                          -3.80% 

14:00    USD     Consumer Confidence Apr                    

69.5                              70.2     

14:00    USD     House Price Index M/M Feb                  

0.20%                           0.00%  

14:00    USD     New Home Sales Mar               

320K                             313K    

Ranges as of 6am London time

Bid          Offer      High       Low

USD/JPY             80.910   80.920   81.19     80.859

EUR/USD             1.31573 1.31588 1.31598 1.3145

EUR/JPY             106.456 106.481 106.81   106.32

AUD/USD             1.02610 1.02640 1.0325   1.0247

NZD/USD             0.81220 0.81240 0.8143   0.8102

USD/CAD             0.99040 0.99060 0.993     0.9904

EUR/CHF             1.20161 1.20183 1.202     1.20154

USD/CHF             0.91311 0.91330 0.9141   0.9132

GBP/USD            1.61230 1.61260 1.613     1.611

EUR/GBP            0.81590 0.81600 0.81605 0.8155

USD/SGD            1.24860 1.24870 1.249     1.247

EUR/SEK             8.88510 8.89000 8.9027   8.887

EUR/NOK            7.54770 7.54990 7.5509   7.5477

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