USD/JPY is risking to breach the up-trend support line that has been underpinning the latest two-month rally.
Although at first it seemed that 1.6397/90 will be able to stop further depreciation of the British Pound, the price remains strongly bearish.
EUR/USD continues to move farther and farther away from the major down-trend resistance line. At the moment the currency pair is eroding a combination of the 55 and 100-day simple moving averages.
It seems that the pair's dip to 0.815 and following recovery has given a strong bullish impetus which pushed the pair through 82 cent mark.
Pair seems to be consolidating around 1.06 after peaking to a new, year 2013, high a few weeks ago.
Pair extended the recovery after receiving a bullish impetus from the 2013 low yesterday and is testing 90 cent mark today.
Pair extended it's losses further after failure around 145 JPY yesterday.
While the resistance at 0.8945/29 gave up in an instant, the down-trend line in conjunction with the February high and the 55-day SMA keeps the bulls at bay for the time being.
Despite a plethora of signals speaking in favour of a rally, namely confirmation of 104.92/81 and bullish technical studies, USD/JPY returned back to the up-trend.
Just like in many other U.S. Dollar crosses, the buck noticeably outperformed its counterpart here as well.
Previous day was marked with a precipitous drop—the exchange rate fell more than 100 pips.
Pair dipped till 81.5 cents, peaking slightly above 0.8225, but soon recovered and is hovering slightly above 82 cent mark.
Pair seemed to have stabilized after a brutal sell off before the new years eve, but received additional bearish impetus from the weekly PP today and has dipped below the 1.06 mark.
Quite a few times in the past weeks the pair tried to push through 2013 low, but unsuccessfully.
Pairs bulls took a step back after pushing it to the highest level in 2013 a few days back which gave the room to the bears to sell it off.
USD/CHF returned back to the February 2012 low after a sharp decline, but appears to be unable to continue the up-move beyond the resistance at 0.8945/20.
USD/JPY has just confirmed 104.92/81 as the new support and is therefore poised for further gains.
Although for a brief moment it appeared that GBP/USD is going to take a break before resuming the recovery, right now it is already probing 1.6596/87.
Taking into account that the key resistance, namely the one formed by the October high and the multi-year down-trend at 1.3832/13, continues to stand its ground, the Euro is still more likely to depreciate from here than outperform the U.S. Dollar.
Even though a test of the support at 0.8125/22 prompted strong buying, the surge, as expected, was halted by a cluster of resistances at 0.8218/0.8197.
After yesterday's attempt of USD/CAD to hop on to 1.0712/1.0693, the pair again fell to the up-trend line.
While yesterday we still considered a breach of the August low as still a viable scenario, today the event appears to be much less probable.
For the second trading day the currency pair remains contained by the formidable resistance at 145.18/144.97 from above and a slightly weaker support at 144.19 from below.
USD/CHF remains on the defensive—it has just closed beneath the monthly S2 and therefore may decline even further.