As the resistance at 0.8813/12 continues to stand its ground, the current bias towards the greenback is to the downside.
Despite a fairly strong bullish impetus USD/JPY demonstrated yesterday, the resistance at 102.33/19 remains intact.
After an eventless beginning of the week GBP/USD soared 100 pips and it is already testing a cluster of resistances around the recent Feb high.
The latest downward momentum did not prove to be strong enough to push the price beneath the monthly PP.
Yesterday the pair declined sharply by losing around 90 pips and its depreciation was slowed down by the major level at 0.8600 and later stopped by the weekly S1 at 0.8593.
Today the pair struggled to break the 100-day SMA at 1.0987, even though yesterday the currency pair broke this resistance level.
Yesterday the Aussie could not break the monthly R1 at 0.9412 and that resulted in a decline below 0.9350; however, today the pair started slowly and it is trying to breach the weekly PP at 0.9366.
Today we saw the pair breaking the 100-day and 55-day SMA at 141.10/20 and right now it is trading around the 20-day SMA at 141.40.
At the moment EUR/USD is testing the support at 1.3816/15 represented by the monthly and weekly pivot points.
Similarly to EUR/USD, the Cable is also standing motionless above its weekly PP.
Although initially USD/JPY appeared hesitant in the face of the down-trend resistance line, it has nevertheless launched an attack on 102.34/03.
As suspected, the resistance at 0.8813/12, consisting of the weekly and monthly pivot points, managed to negate the bullish momentum of USD/CHF.
The New Zealand Dollar dived beneath the weekly PP at 0.8669 and at the time of writing it is trying to break the 20-day SMA at 0.8633.
Today the pair jumped above the 100-day SMA at 1.0984, after trading below it for approximately six days.
The Aussie has tried to break the monthly R1 at 0.9412 for a second straight day; however, unsuccessfully.
The pair stopped its advance around the weekly PP at 140.81 and it is still trading below the 55-day and 100-day SMA.
Despite the bearish outlook implied by the weekly and monthly technical studies, USD/CHF turned around ahead of the monthly S1 and it is now challenging the monthly PP.
The support area around the level of 101.29/19 proved to be of great significance to the market, as it has once again prevented further depreciation of the U.S. Dollar.
Though the Cable has just encountered the Feb high, the sell-off from this level turned out to be short-lived.
EUR/USD did not manage to close a downside gap yesterday, instead at the moment it gravitates towards the monthly pivot point at 1.3815.
The Kiwi is consolidating around the weekly PP at 0.8669, after last week, when the pair set a new more than a three year high at 0.8745.
Past week the pair fluctuated between 1.1000 and 1.0860; however, at the end of the week it closed almost at the same level it opened.
Previous week the Aussie reached a four month high at 0.9461 against the U.S. peer, after reaching this level the pair slid below the monthly R1 at 0.9412.
Last week the pair lost approximately 100 pips and fell below the 20-day, 55-day and 100-day SMA.