USDCAD TECHS: Tests The Channel Top
- RES 4: 1.4274 High Apr 9
- RES 3: 1.4200 Round number resistance
- RES 2: 1.4167 50.0% retracement of the Feb 3 - Jun 16 bear leg
- RES 1: 1.4136/40 Channel top drawn from Jul 23 low / Intraday high
- PRICE: 1.4127 @ 14:43 GMT Nov 5
- SUP 1: 1.3998 20-day EMA
- SUP 2: 1.3935 50-day EMA
- SUP 3: 1.3888 Low Oct 29 and a key support
- SUP 4: 1.3859 Bull channel base drawn from the Jul 23 low
A bull cycle in USDCAD remains intact. This week’s extension highlights a clear reversal of the corrective bear leg between Oct 14 - 29. The pair has breached 1.4080, the Oct 16 high to confirm a resumption of the uptrend.. Sights are on 1.4136 (pierced), the top of a bull channel drawn from the Jul 23 low. A clear break of this hurdle would open 1.4167, A Fibonacci retracement. First support lies at 1.3998, the 20-day EMA.
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GBP: GBPUSD Aided Toward Friday High on NY AM Dollar Weakness
The USD's NY morning fade has aided EURUSD and GBPUSD well off earlier lows, helping EURUSD almost entirely erase the PM resignation losses. EURGBP still trades heavy, however, meaning GBPUSD's rally has the price within range of the Friday high at 1.3486.
- BoE's Bailey is set to speak later today at 1600BST. It's unclear whether he'll comment directly on monetary policy (he's appearing at Scotland’s Global Investment Summit 2025) - but markets remain strongly of the view that additional BoE easing this year is unlikely (6bps of rate cuts currently priced through year-end).
- That said, it's fiscal and political risk that's likely a more primary GBP driver for the rest of this year - The front-end of the GBP vol curve provide a further signal for market concern over the Autumn Budget. The flatter front-end of the curve and the building premium for 2m implied vols shows markets building a risk premium into the event.
- This effect is particularly evident in EUR/GBP, for which markets continue to favour as a GBP weakness play given the unpredictability of the USD into year-end.
- We see GBP's driver as the fiscal policy mix ahead. The Gilt curve and, in particular, the longer-end has regained a sense of stability after being marked sharply higher at the beginning of September. How valid and long-lasting this proves to be should determine GBP/USD's ability to trade within range of 1.3525 (50% mid-Sept downleg) and make meaningful headway toward the bull trigger of the July 1st high at 1.3789.
BOE: Bailey text due for release at 16:00BST / 11:00CET
- Governor Bailey is due to speak today to deliver the keynote speech at Scotland’s Global Investment Summit 2025. The text will be released at 16:00BST here.
- There is no title attached to the speech and it is therefore unknown at this point whether Bailey will be discussing anything relevant for monetary policy.
- With speeches from both Deputy Governors Breeden and Ramsden last week leaning to the dovish side (neither ruled out voting for a November cut) and with Dhingra and Taylor voting for a sequential cut in September, Governor Bailey's position as the swing voter has been further cemented in our view.
- Therefore anything he says on monetary policy could be market moving, particularly anything on the dovish side given current market pricing (with only 1bp priced for a November cut and 5bp priced by year-end).
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