Sterling Rises on Falling Delta Infections, Dollar Softens
Action Insight Mid-Day Report 7-26-21

Sterling Rises on Falling Delta Infections, Dollar Softens

Sterling rises broadly today despite dovish comments from a BoE policymaker. Sentiment towards the Pound is likely support by declining trend in delta variant infections. Other European majors are also firm together with Yen. On the other hand. Dollar is currently the weakest one, followed by commodity currencies. Traders are turning more cautious on the greenback ahead of FOMC meeting later in the week. Aussie and Kiwi are weighed down by heavy selloff in China stocks.

Technically, GBP/JPY's rebound from 148.43 resumed after brief retreat and it's heading back to 153.46 resistance. Similarly GBP/USD's rebound has resumed and could be heading back to 1.3908 resistance. Break there will argue that whole decline from 1.4248 has completed at 1.3570 and pave the way to retest 1.4248 high. We'll see if Sterling could sustain current upside momentum.

In Europe, at the time of writing, FTSE is down -0.03%. DAX is down -0.23%. CAC is up 0.07%. Germany 10-year yield is up 0.004 at -0.414. Earlier in Asia, Nikkei rose 1.04%. Hong Kong HSI dropped -4.13%. China Shanghai SSE dropped -2.34%> Singapore Strait Times dropped -0.57%. Japan 10-year JGB yield rose 0.0009 to 0.017.

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GBP/USD Mid-Day Outlook

Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.3718; (P) 1.3749; (R1) 1.3778; More....

GBP/USD's rebound from 1.3570 resumes today but stays below 1.3908 resistance. Intraday bias remains neutral first. As long as 1.3908 holds, another decline is still in favor. On the downside, break of 1.3570 will resume the fall from 1.4248 to 1.3482 resistance turned support first. Decisive break there will target 38.2% retracement of 1.1409 to 1.4248 at 1.3164. On the upside, break of 1.3908 resistance will turn bias back to the upside for retesting 1.4248 high instead.

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