EUR/USD Price Forecast, Analysis and Chart:
EUR/USD Short-Term Outlook
Financial markets start the first full week of 2020 in a risk-off mode as tensions in the Middle East continue to weigh on investor sentiment. The US and Iran continue to ramp up the aggressive rhetoric, with both sides refusing to take a backward step after the US killed a top Iranian general in retaliation for the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad. The US dollar’s status as the go-to currency in times of trouble remains, along with the Japanese Yen and the Swiss France, and this underlying bid is capping any EUR/USD upside.
The final December German and Euro-Zone services and composite PMIs provided the single-currency with a small boost, with both German releases beating expectations by a healthy margin while the Euro-Zone data also beat on the upside.
The technical set-up for EUR/USD remains clouded by geopolitics and the pair may struggle to print a fresh multi-month high (1.1240) in the short-term, the chart does reveal a bullish set-up of higher-highs and higher-lows off the October low. Near-term support from the 200-day moving average at 1.1128 should hold, before a cluster of old highs and lows either side of 1.1100 come into play. Both the downside and upside remain limited with a short-term range expected to hold.
EUR/USD Daily Price Chart (April 2019– January 6, 2020)
| Change in | Longs | Shorts | OI |
| Daily | 0% | -3% | -1% |
| Weekly | -13% | 16% | -5% |
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