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Unease Market on Inflation Expectations

Second quarter GDP for Australia met the market’s expectation at 0.9%, 3.6%yr. As expected, household consumption drove growth in the quarter, consumption’s strong 2.2% gain in the 3 months to June coming as a result of the economy’s progressive re-opening and as spending was supported by both robust nominal income gains and a further reduction in the savings rate. In coming months households will feel the full effect of the rapid rise in interest rates and the hit to real incomes from historic inflation, limiting further upside. We continue to expect from historic inflation, limiting further upside. We continue to expect consumption growth to decelerate to a pace well below trend form fourth quarter 2022 through end of 2023, taking GDP growth with it. At December 2023, annual GDP growth is expected to have slowed to just 1.0%yr.

Over in the US, this week’s mixed data highlights the variable conditions faced by businesses across the nation. The ISM services PMI edged higher in August; however respondents seemed cautions on the outlook, with the production and new order indexes printing above 60 as employment held around 50- the divide between expansion and contraction.

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EUR/USD faces barricades around 0.9863, focus shifts to US Inflation data

The past week was marked by two important events. The EUR/USD pair updated its 20-year low on Tuesday, September 6th once again, falling to 0.9863. And then the European Central Bank raised its key interest rate for the first time in its history by 75 bps to 1.25% on Thursday, September the 8th, accompanying this act with very hawkish comments.

Both the events did not come as a surprise to the market and on the whole, were in line with the forecasts that we voiced in the previous review. The pair’s rebound to the upside following the ECB’s decision was not surprising either. Having risen by about 250 points, it peaked at 1.0113 on September 9. This was followed by a correction to the north, and the pair finished at 1.0045 .

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Silver outshines gold as dollar slips | Xtreamforex

The new week has started with a bang for risk-sensitive assets, including stocks and metals. Silver had risen around 5% so far on the day, and was leading other metals higher. Gold was also up, but not as impressively as silver, with the yellow metal looking to build a base above the $1725 short-term pivotal level. Similarly, the EUR/USD and GBP/USD were up around 1% on the day.

Whether the metals can kick on from here or go in reverse depends almost entirely on the direction of USD. It will face a big test on Tuesday with the release of US CPI data which is surely going to be the main focal point for the week. Headline CPI is expected to have cooled to 8.1% on an annual basis from 8.5% in the previous month. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, is seen accelerating to 6.1% from 5.9% last.

Regardless of the CPI prints, the Fed is almost certain to deliver another jumbo-sized, 75-basis-point, rate hike next week. This outcome seems to be priced in by now, which is why the dollar is on a retreat after making solid gains in recent months. On Friday, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he favors another significant increase in interest rates at the September meeting, something echoed by James Bullard.

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What will happen to GBP/USD if the UK surprises with higher CPI?


US released its August CPI report. The headline was 8.3% YoY and expectation of 8.1% YoY and a July reading of 8.5% YoY. Headline inflation is decreasing. However, the Core CPI print for August was 6.3% YoY vs an expectation of 6.1% YoY and a previous reading of 5.9% YoY. After the release of the data, the USD shot higher, pushing GBP/USD lower by nearly 150 pips near 1.1530.

Can a similar situation occur tomorrow for the UK when it releases its own August CPI data ? The headline print is expected to be 10.2% YoY vs a July reading of 10.1% YoY. In addition, the Core CPI is expected to be 6.3% YoY vs a 6.2% YoY reading in July. August’s reading was the highest since February 1982, the BOE has already told us that it expects CPI to reach as high as 13% in October and that the UK economy will enter a recession in Q4. Therefore, unlike that of the US in which Fed is not expecting a recession, higher CPI readings shouldn’t do as much damage to the GBP to the FTSE, as markets are already pricing in an element of higher inflation and lower growth.

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New Zealand Q2 GDP Beats Expectations

New Zealand’s GDP rebound by 1.7% in the second quarter, close to the forecast and the RBNZ’s expectation. Services grew strongly as tourists started to return. New Zealand’s GDP rose bu 1.7% on the June Quarter, much in line with 1.6% forecast, as well as the 1.8% rise that the Reserve Bank expected in its August Monetary Policy Statement. In contrast, the result beat the median market forecast for 1% rise.

The bounce in the second quarter followed a 0.2% dip in the first quarter. Assessment at the time was due ti disruptions to activity from the peak of the Omicrone wave, and the absence of the usual uplift in tourist spending at that time if year. Both of those effects were reversed out in the second quarter; the border reopening led to a strong lift in tourists during what would normally have been the seasonal lull.

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Trading forex involves the buying and selling of one currency at the same time. In forex, traders try to make a profit by buying and selling currencies by actively speculating on the direction of currencies in the future. Sometimes you may have heard from others that trading forex is gambling. This is wrong information that you have heard from others. The definition of gambling is one where your victory or defeat depends entirely on luck.

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US Dollar Japanese Yen (USD JPY) Analysis | Xtreamforex

The Japanese Yen is on a wild ride lately. But there were some surprise moves earlier, an explanation of these moves could give some explanation on whether or not the USDJPY has hit a ceiling. There are some important implications for the future of the yen, and something traders need to be very careful.

The yen has been weakening generally because the BOJ isn’t raising rates while other central banks are raising. The BOJ isn’t likely to raise rates in the foreseeable future, which makes the currency ripe for carry trading. The USDJPY spiked higher after US CPI figures came out, because of speculation of an even stronger move by the Fed at the upcoming meeting.
Couples of decades ago the pair moved to similar levels, prompting a response from authorities. In that case, the pair got up to 147.00 and there was joint action from the US and Japan
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The Bank Of Japan does conduct the operation, but it’s at the direction of the Ministry of Finance, who pay for the move. The BOJ will buy yen on the market in a very large volume, enough to push the exchange rate down by several thousand pips all at once. The move is not pre-announced, and can happen more than once. The idea is precisely to keep the market from trying to push the pair up by burning out many of the long positions, and threatening to repeat at any moment.

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This and https://www.forexforum.co/threads/eurusd-chart-analysis.9477/ are the threads that I follow the most. Great info in both!

 

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USD Index COT Data from the commitments of traders report

US bond yields have continued to rise in an almost parabolic fashion, with 1 year note now just shy of 4%, and the 2-year at 3.8% with an increasingly inverted yield curve. And large speculators are not shy in capitalizing on these lower bond prices- which move inversely to bond yields. Last week they were net-short the 2 year treasury note by-358k contracts, which is their most bearish position since April 2021.

The net-short exposure over time it could be argued it is approaching a sentiment extreme.

Net-short exposure hasn’t ever spent much below -350k.
It’s 3-year Z-score is -2.3 standard deviations.
It’s 1-year SD is 2.9
There are 4.6 bears for every bull.

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Reserve Bank of Australia raises rates again

The Reserve Bank Board should slow the pace of rate increases once it reaches its assessment of neutral. That is particularly because of the treacherous lags that will have built up as the inevitable result of such a sharp rate increase in rates, from 0.1% back in May.

The Governor has certainly indicated that intention, both in the speech to the Australian Business Economists on September 8 and in the Parliamentary hearing last Friday.

The scaling back to a slower pace of tightening could begin from the October meeting, with the cash rate having reached the neutral zone at 2.35%.

There has always been some uncertainty as to whether a starting point of 2.35% would be too far below the Governor’s assessment of neutral. He has argued in the past that the real neutral is at least zero, implying a 2.5% nominal rate given longer term inflation expectations. That is above the 2.35% starting point for the October meeting.

That 1% growth rate now has some downside risks but for now given the current momentum in the economy, it’s decided not to mark 2023 growth down any further. It’s also noted that since the forecast is 1% growth rate in 2023 we have revised down our 2022 growth rate from4.4% to 3.4% meaning that the level of GDP by end 2023 will be considerably lower than we had expected when we first made the 1% growth forecast.

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SNB could surprise (again) with a larger than expected hike

The central bank entered ZIRP between 2011-2015 before switching to NIRP with a rate of -0.75%, where it remained until June this year. And with seemingly few paying attention, they not only hiked rates but came out swinging with a 50 bp hike and sent shockwaves across currency markets. This quickly saw the yen strengthen as traders assumed the BOJ would be next to follow, but we’re still waiting and will likely be for some time. But the main point is that the SNB is likely to hike again tomorrow, and it would be wise to at least be prepared for a larger hike than some expect.

A recent poll saw economists up their 50bp hike for the SNB to 75bp. But in light of Sweden’s Riksbank hiking by 100bp, wholesale prices in Germany exploding higher and the potential for the Fed to hike by 100bp, the potential for the SNB to join to 100bp club. Besides, they hiked by 50bp when the consensus was for no change at all and have a track record with an element of surprise. Furthermore, the Swiss government upgraded 2022 CPI from 2.5% to 3%, and for 2023 from 1.4% to 2.3%- so perhaps they know something.

There are some examples of a strong bullish trend on a currency chart, than CHF/JPY right now. Momentum has been increasing during each impulse move higher, the moving averages are in bullish sequence and fanning out, and prices are respecting the closest average as support.

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How Much FOMC Interest Rate Hike By Fed?

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee lifted the federal funds rate to the 3.0% to 3.25% range and reaffirmed a continuation of its balance sheet runoff. The Fed updated its language stating the “recent indicators point to modest growth in spending and production. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated, reflecting supply and demand imbalances related to pandemic, higher food and energy prices, and broader price pressures”.

The Summary of Economic Projections was updated from June:-

The median projection for real GDP growth was downgraded in 2022. The forecast for 2023,2024,2025 and the longer run came in at 1.2%, 1.7%, 1.8% and 1.8% respectively.

The median unemployment rate forecast was 3.8% for 2022. 4.4% for 2023, 4.4% in 2024 and 4.3% in 2025. The longer-run estimate of the unemployment rate stayed the same at 4.0%.

On inflation, the median estimate for core PCE was assumed to be 4.5% in 2022, 3.1% in 2023, 2.3% in 2024 and 2.1% in 2025.
The median projection for the fed funds rate was lifted to 4.4% in 2022, 4.6% in 2023, 3.9% in 2024, and 2.9% in 2025. The long-run neutral rate was assumed to be 2.5%.

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[andengireng]

USDJPY today as we see here, the trend is bullish, so it is good if you open buy position, you can open buy position when the price breaks resistance area at 144.87 with potential target up to 50 pips above

 

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XAG/USD – Rising Up To The Upper Band Of The Channel…

With the effect of positive employment data in the USA, there were decreases in silver until 19.2075. With the purchases coming from this level, there was an increase up to the upper band of the falling price channel that we watch hourly. In case of exiting the channel, upside trades can gain momentum. In this case, 19.95 and 20.27 can be viewed as resistance. In retracements, 19.46 and the lower band of the channel can form support.

 

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Bitcoin's volatility continues as the market reacts to the Bitcoin Cash hard fork. The sell-off has led to significant losses, with Bitcoin slipping below $6,000. The outcome of today's hard fork is crucial, as it could impact Bitcoin and the broader market, potentially leading to further declines if not resolved positively.

 

[Jason Libson]

Bitcoin's recent slide reflects uncertainty around the Bitcoin Cash hard fork. With a 3.13% drop, the market remains volatile. The outcome of today’s fork will likely influence Bitcoin’s recovery, and further market fluctuations are expected depending on the hard fork's results.