Talking Points:
– USDOLLAR Continues to Face Range-Bounce Prices; Fed Rhetoric in Focus
– Bullish USDJPY Setup Continues to Take Shape; Topside Targets on Tap
Index
Last
High
Low
Daily Change (%)
Daily Range (% of ATR)
DJ-FXCM Dollar Index
10570.49
10576.11
10532.92
0.30
82.18%
USDOLLAR Daily
Chart – Created Using FXCM Marketscope 2.0
USDOLLAR Propped Up by Ongoing Talks of Taper
Interim Resistance: 10,582 (23.6 expansion) to 10,589 (50.0 retracement)
Soft Support: 10,469 (June low)
Relative Strength Index Breakout Highlights Bullish Outlook
Release
GMT
Expected
Actual
Initial Jobless Claims (SEP 21)
12:30
325K
305K
Continuing Claims (SEP 14)
12:30
2818K
2823K
Gross Domestic Product (Annualized) (2Q T)
12:30
2.6%
2.5%
Personal Consumption (2Q T)
12:30
1.9%
1.8%
Gross Domestic Product Price Index (2Q T)
12:30
0.8%
0.6%
Core Personal Consumption Expenditure (QoQ) (2Q T)
12:30
0.8%
0.6%
Pending Home Sales (MoM) (AUG)
14:00
-1.0%
-1.6%
Pending Home Sales (YoY) (AUG)
14:00
6.3%
2.9%
Fed’s Jeremy Stein Speaks on Monetary Policy
14:10
Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Activity (SEP)
15:00
8
2
Fed’s Narayana Kocherlakota Speaks on U.S. Economy
16:15
It certainly seems as though market participants are still waiting on a fundamental catalyst to move as the Dow Jones-FXCM U.S. Dollar Index (Ticker: USDollar) preserves the range-bound price action from earlier this week, but the greenback appears to be coiling up for a move higher as it continues to build a short-term base during the final days of September.
Despite the mixed batch of data coming out of the U.S. economy, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker argued that the FOMC should taper ‘a third of the way each time’ as the committee moves away from its easing cycle, while Fed Governor Jeremy Stein warned that the central bank needs to ‘reduce uncertainty’ surrounding its exit strategy amid growing speculation of seeing the first taper at the October 29-30 meeting.
In light of the limited reaction to the slew of U.S. data prints from earlier this week, it seems as though we will need to keep a close eye on the news wire as we still have more Fed officials scheduled to speak over the remainder of the week, and the fresh batch of central bank rhetoric may have a greater impact in driving USD price action ahead of October as market participants weigh the outlook for monetary policy.
USDJPY Daily
USDJPY Preserves Bullish Trend; Continues to Carve Higher Low
Relative Strength Index Stuck in Consolidation Pattern; Waiting for Break
Interim Resistance: 0.9920 (23.6 expansion) to 0.9940 (50.0 expansion)
Interim Support: 0.9750 (38.2 retracement) to 0.9770 (38.2 expansion)
The greenback rallied across the board, led by a 0.50 percent decline in the Japanese Yen, and the bullish trend in the USDJPY should continue to take shape amid the deviation in the policy outlook.
Over the next 24-hours of trading, Japan’s Consumer Price report may also prop up the dollar-yen should the print limit the scope of seeing the Bank of Japan (BoJ) achieve its 2 percent target for inflation, and Governor Haruhiko Kuroda may come under increased pressure to implement more non-standard measures especially as the new government remains on track to raise the sales tax for the first time in fifteen years.
In turn, we will retain a bullish outlook for the USDJPY, and will look for opportunities to buy dips in the exchange rate as the upward trending channel continues to take shape.
— Written by David Song, Currency Analyst
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