Dollar Firms Up Slightly after Retail Sales, Kiwi Still the Strongest
Action Insight Mid-Day Report 7-16-21

Dollar Firms Up Slightly after Retail Sales, Kiwi Still the Strongest

Dollar trades mildly higher in early US session after better than expected retail sales data, but upside moment is weak so far. Mild strength in US futures sends Swiss Franc and Yen slightly lower. Overall, New Zealand Dollar is set to end as the best performer for the week, as RBNZ hike speculations intensified. Dollar is following as second, then Yen. Australian and Canadian Dollar are the worst performers and there is no sign of a turn around.

In Europe, at the time of writing, FTSE is up 0.09%. DAX is down -0.05%. CAC is down -0.46%. Germany 10-year yield is down -0.011 at -0.342. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei dropped -0.98%. Hong Kong HSI rose 0.03%. China Shanghai SSE dropped -0.71%. Singapore Strait Times rose 0.39%. Japan 10-year JGB yield rose 0.0069 to 0.021.

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EUR/USD Mid-Day Outlook

Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.1788; (P) 1.1820; (R1) 1.1843; More...

EUR/USD is staying in tight range below falling 4 hour 55 EMA and outlook is unchanged. With 1.1880 resistance intact, further fall is expected. Current decline from 1.2265, as the third leg of correction from 1.2348, could target 1.1703 support. On the upside, though, break of 1.1880 resistance should indicate short term bottoming, and bring stronger rebound to 1.1974 resistance first.

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GMT Ccy Events Actual Forecast Previous Revised
22:30 NZD BusinessNZ Manufacturing Index Jun 60.7 58.6
22:45 NZD CPI Q/Q Q2 1.30% 0.70% 0.80%
03:00 JPY BoJ Interest Rate Decision -0.10% -0.10% -0.10%
08:00 EUR Italy Trade Balance (EUR) May 5.64B 5.87B
09:00 EUR Eurozone Trade Balance (EUR) May 9.4B 8.2B 9.4B 13.4B
09:00 EUR Eurozone CPI M/M Jun F 0.30% 0.30% 0.30%
09:00 EUR Eurozone CPI Y/Y Jun F 1.90% 1.90% 1.90%
09:00 EUR Eurozone CPI Core M/M Jun F 0.30% 0.30% 0.30%
09:00 EUR Eurozone CPI Core Y/Y Jun F 0.90% 0.90% 0.90%
12:15 CAD Housing Starts Jun 282K 270.0K 275.9K
12:30 CAD Foreign Securities Purchases (CAD) May 20.79B 7.80B 9.95B
12:30 CAD Wholesale Sales M/M May 0.50% -0.90% 0.40%
12:30 USD Retail Sales M/M Jun 0.60% -0.60% -1.30% -1.70%
12:30 USD Retail Sales ex Autos M/M Jun 1.30% 0.40% -0.70% -0.90%
14:00 USD Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Jul P 86.5 85.5
14:00 USD Business Inventories May 0.40% -0.20%