Fed Kept Its Patience While RBNZ Statement Hit NZD
Anthony Wu | Jan 28, 2015 05:31PM ET
The market did not get significant news from the January FOMC meeting. The committee said in its statement “it can be patient in the beginning to normalize the stance of the monetary policy”. U.S. seems to be the only advanced economy that has potential for interest rate hike within 2015. However, as the deflation risk is spreading around the globe and other major economies are struggling in the growth, the policymakers are still careful of using this option.
The market did not find the direction right after the statement was released, but the bullishness of USD managed to prevail in the later part of the day. Euro Dollar fell below the 1.13 mark again, implying that the rebound may be over. We can see in the H4 chart that the retracement stopped at 50% of the fall since QE program announcement. A new round of decline has just begun.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand disclosed its statement one hour after. NZD/USD slumped about 2% as the central bank’s rate remained but said that its currency is still unjustifiably and unsustainably high. Kiwi Dollar has refreshed its 3-year low to 0.7320 by the time of this report. As the speculations increases that RBNZ may cut the rate like Bank of Canada did, the next target below 0.7120, which is the low of 2011, may soon be reached.
Back to stock markets, the Shanghai Composite fell 1.41% to 3306. The Nikkei Stock Average gained 0.15%. Australia 200200 rose 0.1% to 5552. In European markets, the UK FTSE 100 was up 0.21%, the German DAX rebounded 0.78% and the French CAC Index fell 0.29%. The US market mostly fell. The S&P 500 closed 1.35% lower to 2002. The Dow Jones lost 1.12% to 17387, and the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.93% to 4638.
The strong Dollar has affected the profits of US listed company and participants see no sign of rate hike delay. The daily chart of Dow future tells us a potential medium run top is forming. If the 17000 integer level is broken, the index may fall to 16000.
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On the data front, German Unemployment Change will be at 19:55 AEDST. US weekly Unemployment Claims and Pending Home Sales will be released at midnight.
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