USD/CAD Price Analysis: Retreats to 1.3600 as US Dollar stays on sidelines ahead of US Inflation


  • USD/CAD faces pressure above 1.3600 as US Dollar fails to capitalize on strong US NFP.
  • Traders have shifted expectations for Fed reducing rates in the second half of this year.
  • Weak Canadian Employment boosts early BoC interest rate cuts.

The USD/CAD pair falls back to the round-level support of 1.3600 in Monday’s European session. The Loonie asset drops as the US Dollar fails to catch bid despite traders pare expectations for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to begin reducing interest rates from the June meeting.

Investors do not see the Fed reducing interest rates in June as strong United States labor market conditions have strengthened the inflation outlook. Strong demand for workers is generally offset by hiring them with higher wages, which propels consumer spending. Eventually, higher consumer spending leads to an increase in the consumer price inflation.

Going forward, investors will focus on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for March, which will be published on Wednesday. The annual core CPI that strips off volatile food and oil prices is forecasted to have grown at a slightly slower pace of 3.7% from 3.8% in February.

Meanwhile, expectations for early rate cuts by the Bank of Canada (BoC) have deepened due to Canada’ weak labor market data. On Friday, the Statistics Canada showed that labor market witnessed drawdown by 2.2K, while investors forecasted fresh recruitment of 25K jobs. The Unemployment Rate rose strongly to 6.1% from expectations of 5.9% and the prior reading of 5.8%. However, annual Average Hourly Earnings grew at a higher pace of 5.0% from 4.9% in February.

USD/CAD trades close to the horizontal resistance of the Ascending triangle formation on a daily timeframe, plotted from December 7 high at 1.3620. The upward-sloping border of the aforementioned pattern is placed from December 27 low at 1.3177. The chart pattern exhibits a sharp volatility contraction and a breakout can happen in any direction.

The asset remains above the 20-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) near 1.3520, suggesting that the near-term appeal is bullish.

However, the 14-period Relative Strength Index (RSI) oscillates inside the 40.00-60.00 range, indicating indecisiveness among market participants.

The Loonie asset would observe a fresh upside if it breaks above April 5 high at 1.3648. This will drive the asset to the round-level resistance of 1.3700, followed by November 22 high at 1.3765.

On the flip side, a downside move below February 22 low at 1.3441 would expose the asset to February 9 low at 1.3413. A breakdown below the latter would extend downside towards January 15 low at 1.3382.

USD/CAD daily chart

USD/CAD

Overview
Today last price 1.358
Today Daily Change -0.0002
Today Daily Change % -0.01
Today daily open 1.359
 
Trends
Daily SMA20 1.3543
Daily SMA50 1.3516
Daily SMA100 1.3486
Daily SMA200 1.3505
 
Levels
Previous Daily High 1.3648
Previous Daily Low 1.354
Previous Weekly High 1.3648
Previous Weekly Low 1.3478
Previous Monthly High 1.3614
Previous Monthly Low 1.342
Daily Fibonacci 38.2% 1.3607
Daily Fibonacci 61.8% 1.3581
Daily Pivot Point S1 1.3537
Daily Pivot Point S2 1.3485
Daily Pivot Point S3 1.343
Daily Pivot Point R1 1.3645
Daily Pivot Point R2 1.37
Daily Pivot Point R3 1.3753

 

 

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