Earnings Season is In Focus
Several largest American companies will publish their financial results this week. BTCUSD and XAUUSD are skyrocketing. What's going on in the markets?
The US yield curve has a negative incline. The economy is in recession?
Welcome to Friday! The Week’s home straight! What's happening on the markets?
UK news and the 'cable'
According to Markit, the UK Construction PMI for March reduced to 50.7 points – the fastest decline in housing activity since May 2020.
Tim Moore, Economics Director at S&P Global Market Intelligence: A sharp and accelerated decline in house building was the main area of concern in March. Cutbacks to new residential projects in the wake of subdued demand and rising interest rates contributed to the sharpest fall in housing activity across the construction sector for almost three years.
The cable is bouncing back from the resistance line 1.2525 on a long-term time frame. In the short run, the movement up is still possible. According to the currency options analysis, the market is sure the price will stay above 1.2408 during the following 24 hours.
The US and Canadian Economies
The US yield curve has a negative incline. The spread between 3M and 10Y UST is 1.58%. The economy is in recession. Basic Dollar Index is falling, and soon it may touch 99.
Initial Jobless Claims in the US rose to 228K during the week (better than the forecast but worse than the previous fact). Continuing jobless claims started growing. Challenger Job Cuts for March increased. All of these are negative factors for the unemployment rate today.
Canadian Ivey PMI surprisingly skyrocketed yesterday. The index was released at 58.2 despite Markit PMI in Canada falling. It didn’t help much that USDCAD continued growing. The trend is bullish!
NFP, BTC and Gold
Holidays are in almost all countries. The market is thin! Beware, friends. Meanwhile, NFP in the US will be published soon. We think the numbers won't be so high.
BTC is still flat. Quite boring. Support is in cluster 27500 – 27600. Resistance is around 28 000 – 28 100.
XAUUSD is trying to break $2010. There is an evening star doji pattern on a daily time frame – a bad sign for bulls.
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