AUDUSD dips back toward the 100 hour MA

May 21, 2022
AUDUSD dips back toward the 100 hour MA

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AUDUSD falls again to the 100 hour MA

The AUDUSD is mired in an up and down buying and selling day immediately

The preliminary transfer was decrease. The value transfer within the Asian session took the worth down towards the 100 hour MA (blue line) and located keen patrons towards that stage.

The next transfer to the upside noticed a transfer up towards the excessive from yesterday at 0.7071, and stalled towards that stage (see crimson numbered circles).

The final transfer to the draw back has now reached again down towards the rising 100 hour MA once more at a better 0.70106 stage. A break beneath that stage would tilt the technical bias again to the draw back with the 200 hour MA at 0.69644 as the following draw back goal.

Earlier this week, the 200 hour MA based mostly the pair (together with the 100 hour MA). A transfer beneath that 200 hour MA stage will improve the bearish bias extra.

Conversely, if the 100 hour shifting common holds assist once more, the patrons stay in play, however they nonetheless have work to do to show that they will take again extra management.

Serving to the modest threat off sentiment is the continued hammering of the US inventory market. The NASDAQ index is now down -2.72% whereas the S&P has moved into  bear market  territory and is down near -2.0%. The Dow Jones is down -1.51% and on tempo to the eighth straight week decline which has not occurred since 1923.

  •  Bitcoin  is now beneath the $29,000 stage at $28,899 after buying and selling at $28,690 at session lows.
  • Crude oil is down $0.58 extra -0.53% at $109.36.
  • The value of gold is again to unchanged at $1840. It traded as excessive as $1849.52 as little as $1832.49

Within the US debt market, yields are beginning to react to the sharply decrease shares:

  • 2 12 months 2.565%, -4.5 foundation factors
  • 5 12 months 2.792%, -4.6 foundation factors
  • 10 12 months 2.73%, -5.4 foundation factors
  • 30 12 months 2.99%, -6.0 foundation factors

The crosscurrents within the debt market are big as Fed officers are caught between a rock and a tough place. With employment nonetheless tight, and costs continued transfer larger, the Fed is changing into more and more behind the curve in combating inflation. The issue with that’s the inventory markets are usually not loving it in any respect. Furthermore, financial forces like provide chain points from China lockdown, and better oil costs from the Ukraine struggle are issues which can be outdoors of the Fed’s management.

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