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Euro Breaking News: EZ Consumer Confidence Meets Expectations, EUR Bid

Euro Breaking News: EZ Consumer Confidence Meets Expectations, EUR Bid

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EUR/USDTALKING POINTS

  • EZ Consumer Confidence (AUG) – ACT: -24.9; EST: -24.9
  • Energy prices a concern going forward.
  • ECB walks tight rope as winter approaches.
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Eurozone consumer confidence for August printed in line with forecasts (see economic calendar below) coming off July lows. While there is some optimism around the slight improvement, economic and industrial sentiment missed estimates showing underlying concerns by other stakeholders including manufacturers, retailers and service providers.

EUR/USD ECONOMIC CALENDAR

EZ consumer confidence

Source: DailyFX economic calendar

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The unease stems from soaring energy prices and with the European region heading into the winter months, pressure on the consumer and industry will take its toll should elevated energy prices endure. Looking at German wholesale electricity prices we can clearly see the trend higher which is likely to continue through to the end of 2022. Germany is often used as a barometer for the eurozone with the economy being the largest from the constituent nations.

GERMAN WHOLESALE ELECTRICTY PRICES

germany wholesale electricity prices

Source: Refinitiv

Declining sentiment in the EU will add unwanted pressure on the European Central Bank (ECB) in their pursuit to quell inflation particularly after the hawkish speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last week at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. The increasing divergence between central banks (Fed and ECB) has bolstered the USD and will add to inflationary pressure via a weaker euro. Money markets are currently pricing in a 62bps interest rate hike for the September 8th meeting but with tough ties ahead I foresee the ECB sticking with 50bps due to the current watery fundamental environment. Just before the consumer confidence release, the ECB’s Lane delivered some aggressive statements including the need to continue raising rates which helped prop up the euro. Another ECB official (Robert Holzman) a known hawk may well add to this narrative later today during his speech leading to further upside.

ECB INTEREST RATE PROBABILITIES

ECB interest rate probabilities

Source: Refinitiv

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

EUR/USD DAILY CHART

EURUSD daily chart

Chart prepared by Warren Venketas, IG

Resistance levels:

Support levels:

  • 1.0000

IG CLIENT SENTIMENT DATA: BULLISH

IGCS shows retail traders are currently LONG on EUR/USD, with 66% of traders currently holding long positions (as of this writing). At DailyFX we typically take a contrarian view to crowd sentiment however, due to recent changes in long and short positioning we settle on a short-term upside bias.

EUR/USD Bearish
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of clients are net long. of clients are net short.
Change in Longs Shorts OI
Daily 8% -15% -3%
Weekly 35% -23% 4%
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