EUR/USD flattens out near 1.0850 as data looms

EUR/USD cycled familiar levels on Tuesday as investors await a reason to move.
Wednesday kicks off key date slated for the back half of the trading week.
Fedspeak dominates headlines, tempering risk appetite.

Joshua Gibson FXStreet

EuR/USD stuck closely to familiar levels on a sedate Tuesday market session. Talking points from Federal Reserve (Fed) officials dominated headlines, but provided little new information for investors to digest, keeping risk appetite suppressed and stapling bids close to opening prices.

Forex Today: No progress ahead of FOMC Minutes

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EUR/USD technical outlook

The Euro (EUR) is close to flat against the US Dollar (USD) this week, trading within a fifth of a percent from Monday’s opening bids. EUR/USD is caught on the high side of a near-term upswing, and the pair is under threat of a bearish pullback to the 200-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at 1.0786 after failing to break north of the 1.0900 handle.

EUR/USD daily chart

EUR/USD

Overview
Today last price	1.0856
Today Daily Change	-0.0001
Today Daily Change %	-0.01
Today daily open	1.0857

Trends
Daily SMA20	1.0766
Daily SMA50	1.0782
Daily SMA100	1.0818
Daily SMA200	1.0789

Levels
Previous Daily High	1.0884
Previous Daily Low	1.0854
Previous Weekly High	1.0895
Previous Weekly Low	1.0766
Previous Monthly High	1.0885
Previous Monthly Low	1.0601
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	1.0866
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	1.0873
Daily Pivot Point S1	1.0846
Daily Pivot Point S2	1.0835
Daily Pivot Point S3	1.0815
Daily Pivot Point R1	1.0876
Daily Pivot Point R2	1.0895
Daily Pivot Point R3	1.0906

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Joshua Gibson

FXStreet

Joshua joins the FXStreet team as an Economics and Finance double major from Vancouver Island University with twelve years' experience as an independent trader focusing on technical analysis.

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