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USD/CAD Daily Price Forecast – Solid Chinese Oil Demand Pushed The Loonie Downwards Ahead Of CPI Data

By:
Nikhil Khandelwal
Published: Apr 17, 2019, 09:27 UTC

The USD/CAD may find a way to recover previous losses post-release of the bearish-expected Canadian CPI Core data. The Major 200-day SMA stood above the pair inviting more loonie bears.

Canadian Dollar Notes 1

The Loonie extended yesterday’s plunge rally into today’s session touching the lowest vicinity near 1.3307 levels. At 08:15 GMT, the USD/CAD was already 0.29 percent down the day. The growing crude oil prices seem to contribute to the significant fall portion for the commodity-linked loonie.

Oil prices upsurged over substantial demands arising from the Chinese Refineries, who form the world’s second-largest crude consumers. Along with this immediate demand, OPEC-led supply continued to maintain pressures on the commodity. In the meanwhile, investors went innerved over lower-than-expected US Oil Inventories.

The rising Crude West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Futures, in the interim, failed to breach the solid resistance line of $64.55 per barrel. However, the crude remained sustained in the range of $64.41 per barrel and $64.55 per barrel.

Key USD/CAD Impacting Events:

12:30 GMT

The Bank of Canada will issue the following March indexes:

  • Core Consumer Price Index (YoY): The index eliminates eight volatile items such as fruits, vegetables, gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas, mortgage interest, intercity transportation, and tobacco products. This time the analyst are expecting 1.3 percent than the previous 1.5 percent.
  • Consumer Price Index (MoM): The market experts remain in-line to the previous MoM with 0.7 percent.

The Stats Canada will broadcast the following Consumer Price Index (CPI):

  • CPI Core (MoM): Items with high volatility such as food, energy, alcohol, and tobacco gets excluded. The consensus estimates remain aligned with the previous 0.2 percent.
  • CPI (Both YoY & MoM): The analyst expects the MoM to appear in the same range that of previous 0.7 percent while they are bullish with YoY to come near 1.9 percent.

12:30 GMT

The Trade Balance is a useful tool in scaling USD. The Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau will broadcast it. The analysts expect a negative $53.7 billion than the previous negative $51.1 billion.

Technical Analysis

USDCAD 60 Min 17 April 2019
USDCAD 60 Min 17 April 2019

Since the opening of this month, the USD/CAD remained subdued within the range of 1.3298 and 1.3404 levels. Today, the pair had attempted to break the lower boundary of the Bollinger Bands showing heavy selling pressure among the investors. And, the pair hardly went above the center line of the Bollinger bands confirming a strong downtrend. Adding to this, the significant 100-day SMA and 200-day SMA stood above the USD/CAD inviting more bears.

About the Author

Nik has extensive experience as an Analyst, Trader and Financial Consultant for Global Capital Markets. His vision is to generate Highest, Consistent and Sustained Risk-Adjusted Returns for clients over long term basis and providing them world-class investment advisory services.

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