Thursday saw the dollar near a seven-week high against the euro after Fed Chair Jerome Powell resisted March interest rate cuts.
EBC Forex Snapshot
1 Feb 2024
The dollar held near a seven-week high against the euro on Thursday, after Fed Chair Jerome Powell pushed back on the idea of interest rate cuts as soon as March.
France and Germany have published their latest consumer price index data and the results are promising. INSEE reported a 0.2% drop in prices month-to-month and Destatis reported a 0.2% increase in January.
ECB President Christine Lagarde said last week that "the disinflation process is at work", and Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel remarked on Tuesday that the central bank had "tamed the greedy beast" of inflation.
Citi (as of 22 Jan) | HSBC (as of 1 Feb) | |||
support | resistance | support | resistance | |
EUR/USD | 1.0848 | 1.1139 | 1.0744 | 1.0937 |
GBP/USD | 1.2536 | 1.2848 | 1.2590 | 1.2782 |
USD/CHF | 0.8333 | 0.8667 | 0.8489 | 0.8731 |
AUD/USD | 0.6526 | 0.6900 | 0.6483 | 0.6688 |
USD/CAD | 1.3177 | 1.3619 | 1.3336 | 1.3536 |
USD/JPY | 140.59 | 148.80 | 144.55 | 149.01 |
The green numbers in the table indicate an increase in data, the red numbers indicate a decrease in data, and the black numbers indicate that the data remains unchanged.
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