Tuesday 25 March 2014

GFX Morning Commentary

Good Morning,

Today's expected range for the Canadian Dollar against the US Dollar is 1.1170-1.1230

Today's expected range for the Canadian Dollar against the Euro is 1.5430-1.5480

Today's expected range for the Canadian Dollar against Sterling is 1.8450-1.8520

The US Dollar is marginally stronger this morning as the Euro has dropped off for the first time in 3 days. The common currency fell in response to a poor German Business confidence report but also because an EU official sated that a EURO.USD level of 1.4000 will be seen as very bad for a lot of the region's smaller economies. Once again we see verbal intervention as Central Bank's around the world try and influence the value of their currencies.

In the UK the inflation rate came in a little lower than expectation so further evidence that the Bank of England will be under no pressure to raise interest rates any time soon. Sterling for the most part was unchanged in overnight trading.

Nothing new to report on the Loonie, the interbank rate continues to trade around the 1.1200 level as it awaits the next big move, the Loonie is still feeling the effects of our own Central Banks verbal intervention last week and it should remain relatively weak over the foreseeable future.

Up today we get we get a slew of US secondary data including Consumer Confidence at 10:00am, none of these should dramatically change the value of USD.CAD so I look for range trading back and forth around the 1.1200 inter-bank level and the day should  be relatively quiet.

Have a great day
Mike

GFX Morning Currency Rates
Currencies 7:00am Today's Opening  Yesterday's Opening
USD/CAD 1.1203 1.1227
CAD/USD 0.8926 0.8907
EUR/USD 1.3815 1.3769
EUR/CAD 1.5485 1.5461
STG/CAD 1.8492 1.8516
AUD/CAD 1.0249 1.0227
CAD/JPY 91.22 91.2
CAD/CHF 0.7874 0.7887
CAD/HKD 6.9412 6.8884
CAD/CNY 5.5246 5.5158
CAD/MXN 11.7587 11.7752
Commodities
Gold $1,315.00 $1,324.00
OIL $99.98 $98.95
US DOLLAR INDEX
P.CLOSE 79.98 80.11
OPEN 80.02 80.27
US 10YR YIELD 2.72% 2.76%

 

 

 

 

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