The Canadian dollar appreciated on Thursday after oil prices gained 1.7 percent after a higher withdrawal than expected gasoline inventories in the US yesterday. The correlation between energy prices took the loonie to trade at 1.3025 before Canadian and US employment reports due tomorrow morning.
The Bank of England (BoE), led by Canadian Mark Carney followed by comments earlier in the summer and reduce interest rates in the UK. Governor Carney was not done with the 25 basis point decrease in rates and delivered a complete restart its quantitative easing program is a direct response to the perceived negative impact happens after Britain leaving the European Union. The role of central banks has been questioned after major moves QE by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB) have fallen flat, but for now the BoE pushed all the right buttons the market. The GBP has depreciated and look ahead for the central bank to steer the economy.
The Bank of Canada (BoC) has no meeting in August and will return in the fall with the anticipation of investors to reveal what has been the impact of fiscal stimulus measures announced by the Canadian government in March. Canada's benchmark interest rate is at historical low of 0.50 percent. There is not much room to cut and every governor Poloz has not ruled negative rates, there are still some options before he is forced to use unconventional monetary policy tools.
USD / CAD lost 0.347 percent in the last 24 hours. The pair is trading at 1.3025 ahead of employment data in North America. The market will naturally focus on US jobs that had a volatile two months with a range between 11,000 and 287,000 months in months. Canadian data has a tighter range, but jumped gains to losses from one month to another. After the final loss of 700 jobs to a gain of about 10,000 is expected in Canada months.
The price of West Texas gained 1,703 percent in the past 24 hours. WTI is trading at $ 41.40, but still far from the highs of the summer at $ 51.27. Crude has been a roller coaster ride over the past two years. The fall in free fall in prices accelerated in January commodities as concerns about the global slowdown triggered by pink equity sell off in China. Saudi and Russian governments have managed to stabilize the market promising to talk about an exit gel, but after failing to materialize oil prices was to thank you for the high volatility.
employment in Canada is expected to return to positive territory with job gains in the range of 10,000. The impact will not be felt immediately as the US Non-Farm employment (NFP) will steal the spotlight as investors look for signs of a US recovery elastic or signs of weakness to trigger buy or sell USD. Figures from the US and Canadian employment will be published Friday, August 5 at 08:30 EDT
market events to watch this week :.
Friday, August 5
8:30 CAD Employment Change
8:30 CAD trade balance
8:30 CAD Unemployment Rate
8 30 USD Average hourly Earnings m / m
8:30 am USD non-farm employment Change
8:30 USD unemployment
* All times EDT
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