Thursday 4 July 2013

GFX Afternoon Update July 4 2013

After the UK kept their interest rate unchanged the EU did the same leaving their interest at 0.5%. The Euro followed the same pattern as the Pound and fell against the US Dollar spooking investors. ECB Governor Draghi spoke about the plan for the Eurozone, to keep the interest rates at the current levels with little chance of a rate hike in the near future. Draghi made it very clear that the Euro-Zone will have low interest rates for some time.

With US banks closed today we should expect to see very thin trading ranges as the day goes on. We did see a rally in the Canadian Dollar this morning, after trading higher for most of the early morning USD.CAD fell back to trade back near 1.0500 which was a bit surprising as the US Dollar was very strong against both Euro and Sterling.

 Tonight will be the release of the German factory orders which could cause some volatility in the Euro. The more interesting report will be tomorrow when key employment data is released from the US and Canada. These reports are highly anticipated and should cause some volatility in the market when they are released.

Have a great evening

Yonah

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