EUR/USD Price Analysis: Upside seems solid despite Fed prepares to hike amid banking turmoil


  • EUR/USD is juggling around 1.0780, gathering strength for a fresh upside.
  • Odds are favoring that the Fed would go for hiking rates despite knowing the banking sector debacle.
  • Eurozone-ZEW Survey dropped to 10.0 after a five-month rising spell.

The EUR/USD pair has turned sideways in the early Tokyo session after printing a fresh five-week high at 1.0788 on Tuesday. The major currency pair has been underpinned despite the odds favoring a 25 basis point (bp) rate hike by the Federal Reserve (Fed). As per the CME Fedwatch tool, more than 87% chances are in favor of a 25 bps rate hike, which would push rates to 4.75-5.00%.

The context that has spooked the market’s sentiment is that Fed chair Jerome Powell would go for hiking rates despite knowing the banking sector debacle whose consequences are yet to be faced ahead.

Meanwhile, a two-day winning spell by S&P500 has shown that the market is trying hard to revive itself from the banking sector shakedown. The risk appetite theme has also weighed on the US Dollar Index (DXY). The USD Index looks vulnerable above 103.00 and is prone to further downside.

On the Eurozone front, the banking sector debacle has hurt the sentiment of the market participants. Eurozone-ZEW Survey that considers the sentiment of institutional investors dropped to 10.0 after a five-month rising spell.

EUR/USD is struggling to extend the 50% Fibonacci retracement (placed from February 01 high at 1.1033 to March 15 low at 1.0516) at 1.0776 on a four-hour scale. Usually, a perpendicular rally in an asset is followed by a mean reversion to near the 20-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA), which is hovering around 1.0711, at the time of writing.

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) (14) is oscillating in the bullish range of 60.00-80.00, which indicates that the upside momentum is active.

For further upside, the shared currency pair needs to surpass the immediate resistance plotted from January 20 low at 1.0802, which will drive the asset toward January 18 high at 1.0887 and the round-level resistance at 1.0900.

On the flip side, a downside break below March 17 low at 1.0612 would drag the shared currency pair toward March 16 low at 1.0551, followed by March 15 low at 1.0516.

EUR/USD four-hour chart

EUR/USD

Overview
Today last price 1.0769
Today Daily Change 0.0049
Today Daily Change % 0.46
Today daily open 1.072
 
Trends
Daily SMA20 1.0626
Daily SMA50 1.0728
Daily SMA100 1.0577
Daily SMA200 1.0327
 
Levels
Previous Daily High 1.0731
Previous Daily Low 1.0631
Previous Weekly High 1.076
Previous Weekly Low 1.0516
Previous Monthly High 1.1033
Previous Monthly Low 1.0533
Daily Fibonacci 38.2% 1.0693
Daily Fibonacci 61.8% 1.0669
Daily Pivot Point S1 1.0658
Daily Pivot Point S2 1.0595
Daily Pivot Point S3 1.0558
Daily Pivot Point R1 1.0757
Daily Pivot Point R2 1.0794
Daily Pivot Point R3 1.0857

 

 

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