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EUR/USD Forecast: Falls in Reaction to PPI Numbers

By Christopher Lewis
Senior Technical Analyst

Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for tra...

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  • The Euro at least attempted to go a little bit higher in the early part of the trading session here on Thursday, but has since fallen pretty significantly as we continue to see a lot of volatility in markets.
  • With the PPI numbers coming out much hotter than anticipated in the United States, traders are starting to worry that perhaps the Federal Reserve won't be able to cut rates as quickly as they once thought.
  • What I find interesting here is the Euro has formed a bit of a double top at 1.18 and we've had a nice bounce, but now it looks like we're trying to roll over again.

If we break down below the 50 day EMA, then that could send the Euro even lower, perhaps back down, and to the 1.14 level and anything below there, think could call the top.

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Questions for the Fed

EUR/USD Forecast 15/08: Falls in Reaction to PPI (graph)

I think there are a lot of questions out there as to what the federal reserve can do going forward. And one of the federal reserve governors came out today and even suggested that the idea of a half point or a half percent rate cut was validated, was completely wrong by the data that the U S economy is currently producing. If that is the case, things could get rather ugly pretty quickly for the Euro because money will come right back towards the U S because the U S dollar has been so oversold.

Ultimately, this is what I'm waiting to see. I don't want to buy the Euro. And if I did short the U S dollar, it won't be against the Euro. At this point, we're in a little bit of a holding pattern. We are consolidating in an area that I think we may need to make a decision from, but this chart just got quite a bit more interesting.

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Senior Technical Analyst
Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for traders who rely on technical setups to navigate volatile market conditions

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