EU CONSUMER CYCLICALS: Burberry: Moody's Holds Unch

MNI interviews StatsCan chief economist on inflation, data quality --  On MNI Policy MainWire now, for more details please contact sales@marketnews.com
 

• RES 4: 0.8835 High May 3 2023  
• RES 3: 0.8800 Round number resistance 
• RES 2: 0.8769 High Jul 28 and the bull trigger 
• RES 1: 0.8751 High Sep 25  
• PRICE: 0.8737 @ 16:13 BST Sep 29
• SUP 1: 0.8662/8597 50-day EMA / Low Aug 14 and the bear trigger
• SUP 2: 0.8562 50.0% retracement May 29 - Jul 28 upleg 
• SUP 3: 0.8540 Low Jun 30 
• SUP 4: 0.8514 61.8% retracement May 29 - Jul 28 upleg

EURGBP is trading closer to its recent highs and a bullish theme remains intact. The latest recovery paves the way for an extension towards the bull trigger at 0.8769, the Jul 28 high. Clearance of this level would strengthen the bull theme. Support to watch lies at 0.8597, the Aug 14 low. A breach of this level would instead reinstate a recent bearish threat. First support is 0.8662, the 50-day EMA. 

NY Fed Pres Williams signals in a Q&A Monday that he would be supportive of further rate cuts, saying "from my perspective, monetary policy has been and continues to be what we call restrictive." We think he's one of the 9 (of 19) FOMC members who is penciling in a total of 3 cuts by end-2025, including the one delivered last month.

• Historically he's been a dove, though prior to the September meeting he had sounded slightly wary of easing given risks that inflation could pick back up on tariffs.
• However today he says that there "doesn't seem to be any signs of inflationary pressures building", with the tariff impact being more limited than expected, and "underlying inflation continues to move down".
• He highlights labor market risks building: "We've seen a labor market that's been been remarkably resilient, gradually softening over the past year. We've seen the unemployment rate tick up. We've seen some other measures move kind of to signs that the labor market is softening. I don't want to see that go too far.... labor market indicators [are] softening somewhat. At the same time, the some of the upside risks to inflation, in my view, have come down."
• On the September rate cut and the path ahead: "It made sense to move interest rates down a little bit, to get them to take a little bit of the restrictiveness out of there. I still see monetary policy as putting downward pressure on inflation, but just a touch less. And so when it comes to the next question of, well, what do we do next? Do we need to do more cuts or are we, you know, I think the most important thing is we need to be driven by the data."
• Williams says his current model estimate for the real neutral rate is 0.75% - if that's what he has input into the Dot Plot in September, it implies that he has increased his longer-run rate forecast since June. September has 2 dots at nominal 2.75%, whereas there were none in June. The lowest longer-run dots are now at 2.625%, versus a 2.50% low in the June SEP.