AUD/NZD: Look For Break Of 1.079, Retest 100-Day MA

 | Jun 11, 2018 12:39PM ET

h3 FX Week In Review

USD
We have continued the slowdown in the Dollar with the DXY closing -0.7% down at 93.54, this is despite some encouraging economic data. But we seem to be more focused on the Trump effect at the moment.

EUR

The euro, after being largely unchanged shrugged off the worries of Italy and Spain and had a good week. Some ECB members talked about possible future tightening with caught the markets off guard and pushed the EUR up with the EUR/USD by 1% to 1.1766.

GBP

Mixed again for the pound, with a mixture of good economic numbers but Brexit worries and David Davis standoff with the Prime Minister causing some market jitters. Despite this the pound was up 0.5% on both the GBP/USD and GBP/JPY.

Yen

We mostly traded sideways this week with no real data or major developments.

h3 The Week Ahead/h3

Data wise we have CPI from the US, UK and some eurozone Countries. We also have the FED interest rate decision with a widely expected rate hike by 25bps. We must keep an eye on the ECB and BoJ rate decisions, but we expect no movement here.

But the news is dominated by the Korean Summit with Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, very hard to predict if this will affect the markets or in what way. But we just need to be aware. Also, the Europe situation and Brexit are all still on the geo-political agenda.

h3 Major Data Releases/h3