Range Trading Continues as Markets Await Breakouts
Action Insight Daily Report 6-3-21

Range Trading Continues as Markets Await Breakouts

Major pairs and crosses are still bounded inside last week's range as markets failed to take a decisive direction. While oil price continues to strengthen its rally, there is little reaction from Canadian Dollar so far. Stocks are also range bound while 10-year yield hover around 1.6 handle. Nevertheless, volatility might start to come back with US ADP employment and tomorrow's non-farm payrolls.

Technically, we'd maintain that more downside is in favor in both Dollar and Yen for now, unless some levels are broken decisively. The levels include 1.4090 support in GBP/USD, 0.7673 support in AUD/USD, 0.9046 resistance in USD/CHF and 1.2201 resistance in USD/CAD. As for Yen pairs, the levels are 132.51 support in EUR/JPY, 153.81 support in GBP/JPY and 89.55 support in CAD/JPY.

In Asia, at the time of writing, Nikkei is up 0.49%. Hong Kong HSI is down -0.43%. China Shanghai SSE is up 0.39%. Singapore Strait Times is up 0.15%. Japan 10-year JGB yield is up 0.0039 at 0.083. Overnight, DOW rose 0.07%. S&P 500 rose 0.14%. NASDAQ rose 0.14%. 10-year yield dropped -0.024 to 1.591.

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USD/CAD Daily Outlook

Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.2013; (P) 1.2052; (R1) 1.2075; More...

Intraday bias in USD/CAD remains neutral as sideway trading continues. Again, we'd stay cautious on strong support from 1.2048/61 to bring reversal. On the upside, break of 1.2201 resistance will indicate short term bottoming and turn bias to the upside for stronger rebound. On the downside, break of 1.2005, and sustained break of 1.2048/61 will carry larger bearish implications. Next near term target will be 161.8% projection of 1.2880 to 1.2363 from 1.2653 at 1.1816.

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Economic Calendar
GMT Ccy Events Actual Forecast Previous Revised
22:30 AUD AiG Performance of Construction May 58.3 59.1
1:30 AUD Retail Sales M/M Apr 1.10% 1.10% 1.10%
1:30 AUD Trade Balance (AUD) Apr 8.03B 8.00B 5.57B
1:45 CNY Caixin Services PMI May 55.1 56.2 56.3
7:45 EUR Italy Services PMI May 52 47.3
7:50 EUR France Services PMI May F 56.6 56.6
7:55 EUR Germany Services PMI May F 52.8 52.8
8:00 EUR Eurozone Services PMI May F 55.1 55.1
8:30 GBP Services PMI May F 61.8 61.8
11:30 USD Challenger Job Cuts Y/Y May -96.60%
12:15 USD ADP Employment Change May 695K 742K
12:30 USD Initial Jobless Claims (May 28) 410K 406K
12:30 USD Nonfarm Productivity Q1 5.50% 5.40%
12:30 USD Unit Labor Costs Q1 -0.40% -0.30%
13:45 USD Services PMI May F 70.1 70.1
14:00 USD ISM Services PMI May 62.9 62.7
14:00 USD ISM Services Employment May 58.8
14:30 USD Natural Gas Storage 115B
15:00 USD Crude Oil Inventories -1.7M