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Canadian Dollar Sinks with Crude Oil Despite Solid Retail Sales Data The Canadian Dollar brushed aside solid local retail sales data, underperforming against most of its major counterparts on Wednesday. Excluding automotive, companies sold 1.7% more m/m in March versus 0.9% expected and from 0.7% in February. That was the highest since May 2018, but once you accounted for autos, those only rose 1.1% versus 1.2% anticipated. Bank of Canada rate cut bets actually increased by day-end.
Moreover, the Loonie was focused on what was going on with the decline incrude oil prices . It began with a downturn in sentiment during European hours as equities fell. The commodity brushed aside a drop in Russian oil output, which highlights its vulnerability to a decline in stocks due to itssentiment-linked vulnerability . The commodity did also accelerate its decline when US weekly oil inventories increased.
CAD/JPY Versus Crude Oil Prices and Canadian Bond YieldsChart Created in TradignView
Canadian Dollar Technical AnalysisUSD/CADfinds itself wedged between support at 1.3390 and resistance just under 1.3445. The pair struggled to breakout to the upside over the past three weeks when looking at its performance around the peaks in March. A break under support exposes what could be a rising channel of support from February lows.
USD/CAD Daily ChartChart Created in TradingView
British Pound, Brexit, FOMC Minutes and the US Dollar The British Pound continued to depreciate across the board in its prolonged decline since earlier this month over the future of Brexit. Over the past 24 hours, UK Prime Minister Theresa May came under increasingly more pressure to step down which risks throwing another curveball atEU-UK divorce negotiations . Meanwhile, theUS Dollartraded sideways as theFOMC minutesstressed the importance of local data.
Thursday's Asia Pacific Trading SessionS & P 500futures are pointing narrowly lower heading into Thursday's session following a disappointing day on Wall Street. Overnight, the US weighedblacklistingChinese surveillance firms such as Megvii and Meiya Pico. If this risks escalating US-China trade wars after talks have reportedly been stalling, equities could be vulnerable with the anti-riskJapanese Yenin a potentially good spot to benefit from.
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