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Canadian Dollar Flat On Thin Holiday Trading

Published 05/30/2017, 12:14 AM
Updated 03/05/2019, 07:15 AM

The Canadian dollar is trading close to the 1.3445 price level on a low volume session due to the US memorial Day and UK Bank Holidays. The pair has been moving in a tight trading range ahead of the next four days were a deluge of US data is expected.

The highlight of the week is the release of the U.S. non farm payrolls (NFP) on Friday. The U.S. Federal Reserve is heavily anticipated to hike rates when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets in June 13/14. The CME FedWatch tool is showing a probability of 84.2 percent of the benchmark fed funds rate going up to 100 to 125 basis points range.

On the Canadian front the biggest release will be the monthly gross domestic product on Wednesday, May 31 at 8:30 am EDT. The release of the Trade balance on Friday is likely to be overshadowed by the US jobs report in a week where the loonie is on the back foot to US releases. The Canadian stock market was higher after positive earnings reports from banks last week.

Political risk has put the USD under pressure as Russian connections have raised the possibility of the Trump administration collaborating with foreign representatives during the election. The Fed has kept the USD at current levels with the majority of the recent Fed speakers saying that rate hikes are needed sooner rather than later. The words from San Francisco Fed President John Williams that the US economy does not need a fiscal stimulus package was seen as a USD positive as there are a lot of obstacles to tax reform in the US, and some of them put in place by the Trump administration.


USD/CAD Chart For May 29

The USD/CAD lost 0.011 percent in the last 24 hours. The currency pair is trading at 1.3445 in a low liquidity trading session. Investors are already looking ahead at the data to be released tomorrow. The US consumer confidence data to be released at 10:00 am EDT and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) fiscal stability report later in the day at 5:00 pm EDT.

Due to the Memorial Day holiday the ADP private payrolls report and the weekly US crude inventories will be pushed back to Thursday at 8:15 am EDT for the employment report and 11:00 am EDT for the crude stock info.

Market events to watch this week:

Tuesday, May 30
10:00 am USD CB Consumer Confidence
5:00 pm NZD RBNZ Financial Stability Report

Wednesday, May 31
8:30 am CAD GDP m/m
9:30 pm AUD Private Capital Expenditure q/q
9:30 pm AUD Retail Sales m/m

Thursday, Jun 1
4:30 am GBP Manufacturing PMI
8:15 am USD ADP Non-Farm Employment Change
8:30 am USD Unemployment Claims
10:00 am USD ISM Manufacturing PMI
11:00 am USD Crude Oil Inventories

Friday, Jun 2
4:30 am GBP Construction PMI
8:30 am CAD Trade Balance
8:30 am USD Average Hourly Earnings m/m

8:30 am USD Non-Farm Employment Change
8:30 am USD Unemployment Rate

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