IFX Market Report - 19 November 2009

Submitted by qrops on Thu, 19/Nov/2009

The BoE minutes were released yesterday revealing a three way split in their decision to increase the asset buying programme earlier in the month by £25 billion. There are 9 members of the MPC of which 1 voted for an increase of £40 billion, 1 member voted for no increase with the remaining 7 opting for the £25 billion. This has left the door open for further future increases but as the past has shown nothing can be confirmed until their next meeting. A lot will depend on the Q4 GDP figures as an increase and more positive outlook is needed after the Q3 GDP.

The members however were unanimous in the decision to keep interest rates at the record low of 0.5% for the foreseeable future and for a longer time than those in most other developed economies.

The release of the minutes showed the committee had discussed the positive factors and option of cutting the remuneration rate the BoE pays on commercial bank reserves this resulted in sterling losing a lot of the gains it has recently achieved in yesterday’s morning session.

Sterling continued to fall in the afternoon session and hit lows of €1.1174 down from €1.1311 as the euro made its biggest daily percentage rise in nearly a month. The pound also fell against the dollar from session highs of $1.6844 to $1.6741 which shows there is still a lot of volatility in the markets, the drop in the pound has a lot to do with the uncertainty moving forward. Over in the US risk aversion was kick started again following the US Commerce Department reporting housing starts dropped 10.6 percent to an annual rate of 529,000 units, the lowest since April. It was the biggest fall in 10 months.

Data released in the UK included a survey which showed factory orders fell in October by its slowest rate since December 08, whilst the export demand was at its strongest level since April 09.

Today the UK will see data releases which included Retail sales and mortgage approvals.

Intraday Support and Resistance Levels for the day

 

EUR/USD

 GBP/USD

USD/JPY

 USD/CHF

 AUD/USD

EUR/GBP

Daily Trend

          

    

 

    

    

       

Weekly Trend 

  

  

   

  

    

  

Resistance

1.4990

1.6775     

89.90      

1.0210      

0.9320       

0.9010

1.4970

1.6755

89.70

1.0190

0.9300

0.8990

1.4940

1.6725

89.40

1.0160

0.9270

0.8960

Support

1.4880

1.6665

88.80

1.0100

0.9210

0.8900

1.4850

1.6635

88.50

1.0070

0.9180

0.8870

1.4830

1.6615

88.30

1.0050

0.9160

0.8850

 

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