Daily FX Rambles

Andy Harrison

Good morning,

NYK CLOSE

EUR

1.32378

GBP

1.62215

JPY

80.096

CHF

0.90773

AUD

1.03338

NZD

0.81545

CAD

0.98582

EURCHF

1.20162

EURGBP

0.81606

EURJPY

106.031

Harry Hindsight

With various May day celebrations going on throughout the world the market on the whole was quiet, The obvious exception was the AUD, where the RBA cut their base rate from 4.25% to 3.75% the market only expected a 25bps cut so having seen the market drift from the 1.0430 level down to 1.0400 before the figure dropped another 50 tics in the first minute before declining a further 20 tics as we moved into London, from there it moved from the 1.0320 area down again to below 1.0310 before finding some support from exporters to move it back above 1.0320 from there the range remained reasonably tighter over the remainder of the sessions with 1.0320/50 holding it till the end. EUR pretty much ignored the Ozzie cut, finding buyers of the cross aggressively moving the Euro’s high during the Asian session, in Early London the market made a move to break through the 1.3280 level but although there was a few attempts it couldn’t penetrate the level and into the early NYK session collapsed with decent ISM numbers out of the states triggering weak break out guy stop losses with the European market being more or less closed the decline was exaggerated moving from above 1.3270 down to just above the 1.3200 as a quick move the rest of the session was dull with some repair work moving back to up to just below 1.3230. Cable faired a little better ranging tightly in Asia before moving steadily down to push through 1.6200 before moving back up again, there was a strange spike lower in the afternoon which looks more like a mishit on EBS/D2 with a thin market before finishing nearly unchanged for the day the PMI number for the UK is one to watch if it continues in today’s numbers it could be of concern. USDJPY traded in a tight range but then it was a bank holiday for them, it stayed 79.85/79.65 for the Asian session and only breaking out on the US ISM number moving quickly above 80.00 to peak at 80.31 before a slow slide towards the 80.00 area into the close.

Yesterday’s premiership results 

Actual                          Consensus       Previous          Revised   

01:00    CNY     PMI Manufacturing Apr 

53.3                  53.6                  53.1     

01:30    AUD     House Price Index Q/Q Q1        

-1.10%              -0.50%              -1.00%              -0.70%

04:30    AUD     RBA Rate Decision       

3.75%               4.00%               4.25%  

08:30    GBP     PMI Manufacturing Apr 

50.5                  51.5                  52.1     

14:00    USD     ISM Manufacturing Apr 

54.8                  53                     53.4     

14:00    USD     ISM Prices Paid Apr     

61                     59                     61        

14:00    USD     Construction Spending M/M Mar

0.10%               0.40%               -1.10% 

23:50    JPY      Monetary Base Y/Y Apr            

4.10%                                       -0.20% 

For today 

USDJPY
Topside : 80.30-80.60 (light buy stops) 80.70-81.00 (light offers) 81.00-81.30 (decent offers) 81.30-81.60 (decent offers) 
Downside : 79.70-80.00 (medium sell stops) 79.30-79.60 (decent sell stops) 79.00-79.30 (decent bids) 78.50-78.80 (decent bids) 

EURUSD
Topside : 1.3240-1.3270 (light buy stops) 1.3270-1.3300 (light buy stops) 1.3300-1.3330 (decent buy stops) 
Downside : 1.3170-1.3200 (light sell stops) 1.3120-1.3150 (light sell stops) 1.3070-1.3100 (medium sell stops) 

EURJPY
Topside : 107.00-107.30 (light offers)
Downside : 105.30-105.60 (light sell stops) AUDUSD
Topside : 1.0350-1.0380 (light buy stops) 1.0400-1.0430 (medium buy stops) 1.0440-1.0470 (light buy stops) 
Downside : 1.0290-1.0320 (light sell stops) 1.0250-1.0280 (medium bids) 

 

Another quiet day as extended bank holidays bite in the Asian market, Euro’s declined on technical trading from the 1.3240 level briefly touching 1.3211 before a slow move back up into mid-range with all eyes on today’s Eurozone PMI figure. Cable moved up from NYK close but 18 tics is not a trend. AUD had a range of 1.0326/50 and although its rose over the session I think some EUR/AUD profit taking has dominated the AUD today. USDJPY with two more days of bank holidays, today was the last chance for the exporters to put on hedges before the weekend, moving USDJPY high over all to push above 80.40 running into pre London.

CNY:

HSBC China April PMI 49.3 Vs Preliminary 49.1, March’s 48.3 

China set to toughen rules on underperforming stocks-paper 

China April Housing Prices Slide For 8th Straight Month 

CNY/JPY/KRW:

China, Japan, S.Korea discuss bond market cooperation 

JPY:

Moody’s warns against lack of tax hike in Japan 

Japan wage earners’ pay up 1.3 pct yr/yr in March

Japan Govt: Expect Potential Electricity Shortages In Kansai, Kyushu, Tokyo

NZD:

NZ state pension fund looks to buy forest from Harvard

Actual                   Consensus                          Previous              Revised  

2:30      CNY     HSBC Manufacturing PMI Apr   

49.3                                                                  48.3

Today’s data

Consensus                               Previous  

7:15      CHF      Retail Sales (Real) Y/Y Mar                   

1.10%                                       0.80%

7:30      CHF      SVME-PMI Apr             

51                                             51.1

7:55      EUR     German Unemployment Change Apr                  

-10K                                         -18K

7:55      EUR     German Unemployment Rate Apr                      

6.70%                                       6.70%

8:00      EUR     Eurozone PMI Manufacturing Apr F                   

46                                             46

8:30      GBP     PMI Construction Apr               

54                                             56.7

8:30      GBP     Mortgage Approvals Mar                      

48.0K                                        49.0K

8:30      GBP     M4 Money Supply M/M Mar                              

-1.90%

9:00      EUR     Eurozone Unemployment Rate Mar                    

10.90%                                     10.80%

12:15    USD     ADP Employment Change Apr              

175K                                         209K

14:00    USD     Factory Orders Mar                  

-1.50%                                      1.30%

14:30     USD       Crude Oil Inventories    

                                                                4.0M

Ranges as of 6am London time

                                High       Low

Bid                          Offer                      High                       Low

USD/JPY             80.410                   80.415                   80.42                     80.031

EUR/USD             1.32227                 1.32238                 1.3242                   1.3211

EUR/JPY             106.324                 106.339                 106.33                   105.85

AUD/USD             1.03460                 1.03480                 1.0352                   1.0326

NZD/USD             0.81480                 0.81500                 0.8151                   0.8128

USD/CAD             0.98490                 0.98510                 0.9864                   0.985

EUR/CHF             1.20157                 1.20169                 1.2018                   1.2015

USD/CHF             0.90866                 0.90887                 0.90945                 0.90751

GBP/USD            1.62340                 1.62360                 1.6236                   1.6219

EUR/GBP            0.81445                 0.81460                 0.81615                 0.8144

USD/SGD            1.23670                 1.23690                 1.2372                   1.2355

EUR/SEK             8.88820                 8.89000                 8.8999                   8.8886

EUR/NOK            7.56510                 7.57230                 7.5875                   7.5581

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