After hitting a multi month low at the end of last week the USD (index) failed to extend gains this week dropping overnight to 79.592 overnight in the wake of some slippage in US Treasury yields (10 year treasury yields fell to around 2.73%).
Conversely EUR/USD once again breached the 1.39 level despite attempts by European Central Bank officials to convince the markets that the message from last week’s policy meeting was in fact dovish. Markets have yet to be convinced (as do I), however, given that the ECB has yet to put its words into action in terms of further policy easing.
The key to a more sustainable EUR decline / USD recovery is to shake off the bad weather impact on the US economy. This is likely to take place soon although not quickly enough to be revealed in today’s release of US February US retail sales data, which will reveal that core sales remained pressured, leaving the USD without much support.
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