- USD/CAD attracts some dip-buying on Monday and draws support from a combination of factors.
- Sliding Oil prices undermines the Loonie and acts as a tailwind for the pair amid a stronger USD.
- The fundamental backdrop favours bullish traders and supports prospects for a further move up.
The USD/CAD pair attracts some buying following an intraday dip to sub-1.3600 levels on Monday and hits a fresh daily high during the early European session. The pair is currently placed around the 1.3625 region, though remains below its highest level since January 6 touched on Friday.
Crude Oil prices meet with a fresh supply on the first day of a new week, which is seen undermining the commodity-linked Loonie and lending support to the USD/CAD pair. Worries that rapidly rising borrowing costs will dampen economic growth and dent fuel demand overshadow the prospect of lower exports from Russia. This, in turn, fails to assist Oil prices to build on a two-day-old recovery move from a nearly three-week low touched last Thursday.
Apart from this, bets that the Bank of Canada (BoC) will pause the policy-tightening cycle, bolstered by softer Canadian consumer inflation figures released last week, weighs on the domestic currency. In contrast, the Federal Reserve is expected to stick to its hawkish stance in the wake of stubbornly high inflation. This, along with a softer risk tone, keeps the safe-haven US Dollar pinned near a multi-week high and acts as a tailwind for the USD/CAD pair.
The prospects for further policy tightening by the Fed were reaffirmed by the stronger US PCE data on Friday, which indicated that inflation isn't coming down quite as fast as hoped. Adding to this, the incoming positive US macro data points to an economy that remains resilient despite rising borrowing costs and fueled hawkish Fed expectations. This remains supportive of elevated US Treasury bond yields and continues to boost the Greenback.
The aforementioned fundamental backdrop seems tilted firmly in favour of bulls and suggests that the path of least resistance for the USD/CAD pair is to the upside. Further, the technical picture also indicates a bullish continuation pattern may has formed after Friday's strong up day, which also helped to confirm the major trendline break of the previous two sessions. This continuation pattern could see prices rise up to the 1.3800 level conditional on confirmation from a break above Friday's high at 1.3665.
Market participants now look to the US economic docket, featuring the release of Durable Goods Orders and Pending Home Sales data. This, along with Oil price dynamics, should provide a fresh impetus to the USD/CAD pair and allow traders to grab short-term opportunities.
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