Market Patrol 21 January 2022

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Mark Harila

Indicative Selling Rates
against MUR
USD

20 Dec 2024

AUD
30.10
0.6322

BWP
3.54
0.0745

CAD
33.29
1.4301

CNY
6.72
7.0815

DKK
6.71
7.0904

EUR
49.58
1.0414

HKD
6.22
7.6568

INR
0.57
83.7507

JPY
31.08
153.1735

KES
37.41
127.2757

NZD
27.03
0.5677

NOK
4.24
11.2216

SGD
35.54
1.3396

ZAR
2.68
17.7715

SEK
4.37
10.8960

CHF
53.34
1.1203

GBP
59.72
1.2543

USD
47.61
1.0000

AED
13.26
3.5895

U.S dollar sailed higher on expectation of a hawkish FOMC meeting next week.

Fundamental News

EUR/USD
The Shared currency pared gains to $1.1325 ahead of the U.S Federal's two-day policy meeting starting on Tuesday next week. Investors will look for clues to the central bank timeline for both interest rate hikes and asset tapering.

GBP/USD
The Cable slipped to $1.3594 amid contrasting signals concerning Brexit and the Bank of England's next move, ahead of the key U.K. Retail Sales for December today.

USD/JPY
The Japanese yen shot up to 113.84 against the U.S. dollar despite downbeat signals from the Bank of Japan monetary policy meeting minutes, as well as mixed inflation data from Japan.

AUD/USD
The Aussie dollar sank to $0.7196 on surging covid cases in Australia and U.S. Fed-RBA divergence to cap the upside.

USD/CAD
The Loonie boosted to $1.2518 per U.S dollar as WTI clocked fresh seven-year highs.

USD/ZAR
The rand strengthened to 15.22 versus the greenback on the growing expectation that the South African Reserve Bank's first-rate decision of 2022 is due on Jan. 27, with economists predicting a 25 basis point increase in the repo rate to 4.00%.

USD/MUR
The dollar-rupee idled at 43.70 (Selling) on the local market.

Fundamental & Technical Data

Economic Indicators-Local Time

10:00 - GBP - Retail Sales (MoM) (Dec)

17:30 - CAD - Core Retail Sales (MoM)(Nov)

20:30 - USD - Fed Chair Yellen Speaks

Central Bank Interest Rates

Last Change

New Meeting

Federal Bank of U.S

0.00%-0.25%

16-Mar-2020

26-Jan-2022

European Central Bank

0.00%

10-Mar-2016

03-Feb-2022

Bank of England

0.25%

16-Dec-2021

03-Feb-2022

Bank of Japan

-0.10%

28-Jan-2016

18-Jan-2022

Reserve Bank of Australia

0.10%

03-Nov-2020

01-Feb-2022

S.Africa Reserve Bank

3.50%

23-Jul-2020

27-Jan-2022

Reserve Bank of India

4.00%

22-May-2020

12-Jan-2022

Bank of Mauritius

1.85%

16-Apr-2020

Looking for Markets correlation?

Market Correlation is a measure, statistical or observational, that gives a positive or negative link between the pricing of multiple currencies.

Bulls & Bears Levels

Resistance and Support

Levels

EUR/USD

GBP/USD

USD/JPY

USD/ZAR

1.1418

1.3719

115.05

15.77

1.1393

1.3691

114.80

15.66

1.1352

1.3644

114.47

15.48

1.1327

1.3616

114.22

15.37

1.1286

1.3569

113.89

15.16

1.1261

1.3541

113.64

15.04

1.1220

1.3494

113.31

14.86

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