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USD/CHF slips below 0.9140 as US Dollar retreats ahead of US preliminary PMI

  • USD/CHF edges down as US Dollar drops despite hawkish FOMC minutes.
  • Preliminary US Manufacturing and Services PMI are estimated to grown steadily.
  • The market sentiment is bullish amid firm Fed rate-cut bets.

The USD/CHF pair dips after facing selling pressure near 0.9140 in Thursday’s European session. The Swiss Franc asset comes under pressure as the US Dollar edges down amid firm speculation that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will start reducing interest rates from the September meeting. The market sentiment has improved due to firm Fed rate-cut prospects.

S&P 500 futures have posted significant gains in the London session, suggesting a sharp increase in investors’ risk-appetite. US yields have slumped as firm Fed rate-cut bets is an unfavorable scenario for them. 10-year US Treasury yields have dropped to 4.42%.

Investors remain confident that the Fed will return to policy normalization in September despite the message from officials in the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes was clear that interest rates will remain steady at their current levels until they get greater confidence that inflation will sustainably decline to the desired rate of 2%.

The reason behind strong investors’ confidence on rate cuts is that the commentary from officials was based on stubbornly higher inflation in the first quarter of this year. However, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for April showed that price pressures declined in line with estimates.

Meanwhile, investors await the US preliminary S&P Global PMI data for May, which will be published at 13:45 GMT. The Manufacturing and Services PMI are forecasted to have remained unchanged at 50.0 and 51.3, respectively.

USD/CHF

Overview
Today last price 0.9136
Today Daily Change -0.0021
Today Daily Change % -0.23
Today daily open 0.9157
 
Trends
Daily SMA20 0.9096
Daily SMA50 0.9058
Daily SMA100 0.8883
Daily SMA200 0.8879
 
Levels
Previous Daily High 0.9158
Previous Daily Low 0.9107
Previous Weekly High 0.9103
Previous Weekly Low 0.8988
Previous Monthly High 0.9195
Previous Monthly Low 0.8998
Daily Fibonacci 38.2% 0.9139
Daily Fibonacci 61.8% 0.9126
Daily Pivot Point S1 0.9123
Daily Pivot Point S2 0.9089
Daily Pivot Point S3 0.9071
Daily Pivot Point R1 0.9175
Daily Pivot Point R2 0.9192
Daily Pivot Point R3 0.9227

 

 

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