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Daily Report: Dollar Pressured in a Busy Day with FOMC, US CPI, EZ PMIs and UK CPI
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Daily Report: Dollar Pressured in a Busy Day with FOMC, US CPI, EZ PMIs and UK CPI
By ActionForex | Dec 15, 2008 07:00PM ET Dollar's sharp decline continues ahead of a busy day that features FOMC rate decision and release of consumer inflation as well as new residential construction data from the US. Fed is widely expected to cut rates by at least 50 bps to bring the federal funds rate to lowest levels in decades of 0.50%. There are some speculations that Fed will indeed opt for a deeper cut with interest rate futures pricing in more than 60% chance of a 75bps cut. But whether it's 50bps or 75bps, it shouldn't matter much as it's just a matter of time when Fed will adopt Zero Interest Rate Policy. The focus is indeed on any details that the Fed would outline in the accompanying statement on the plan for "qualitative easing".
On the data front, building permits in November should have further reduced to 0.7M from 0.73M last month while November's housing start should have also lowered to 0.5M from 0.79M. Headline CPI is expected to moderate sharply from 3.7% yoy to 1.5% yoy in Nov while core CPI is expected to drop from 2.2% yoy to 2.1% yoy.
Technically speaking, dollar index's sharp decline from 88.46 is still in progress. Medium term rise from 71.31 is viewed as completed with five waves up to 88.46 (80.38, 75.89, 87.87, 83.11, 88.46). Head and shoulder reversal pattern there (ls:87.87, h: 88.46, rs: 87.68) confirmed that 88.46 is a medium term top. Deeper correction is now expected to 50% retracement of 71.31 to 88.46 at 79.88 which is close to 80 psychological level. On the upside, though a break above 84.03 minor resistance will suggest that a short term bottom is possibly formed and bring recovery as consolidation continues. Also, note that so far, dollar's weakness is mainly seen against European majors, in particular the broadly strong Euro. Commodity currencies and yen remains steady against the greenback this week so far.
Flash PMIs will be the main focus from the EUrozone today. After big disappointments in November as well as further economic deterioration, economists expect Eurozone's December manufacturing and service PMIs to come in at 34.3 (November: 35.6) and 41.2 (November: 42.5) respectively. Moreover, December PMI in Germany is also expected to have lowered to 34.5 from 35.7 for manufacturing component and 44 from 45.1 for services component. Eurozone will also report employment for the third quarter.
Due to decline in commodity prices and sluggish demand, UK's CPI should have plunged 0.3% in November after falling 0.2% in October. On annual basis, the gauge is expected to have risen to 3.9%, lower than 4.5% in the previous month. The nation's RPI is anticipated to come in at -0.7% and 3.1% on monthly and yearly basis. Both readings indicated continuous decline in price levels.
Switzerland's Q3 industrial production is expected to have dropped 2.3% after rising 8.9% in second quarter.
In the monetary policy minutes released overnight, the RBA lowered its forecast on inflation to 2.5% from 3% in the 12 months through Jun 09. As the RBA's target lies between 2-3%, the reduced forecast may lead the central bank to take a less aggressive approach in cutting interest rates in coming meetings. Japan's tertiary industry index in October surprisingly rose to 0.4% (consensus: -0.2%) from the revised -0.7% in September.
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Daily Report: Dollar Pressured in a Busy Day with FOMC, US CPI, EZ PMIs and UK CPI
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