Friday 28 August 2020

Currency Market Updates: 28 Aug

 

Globally, US FED president, Powell announced that FED will target average inflation of 2%, which necessarily means that FED will allow inflation to overshoot 2% to make-up for lower inflation in earlier period. Thus, interest rate hikes and its quantum would be later and lower.  Ironically, market reaction to FED’s policy change was a bit counter intuitive as US 10 year bond yield surged more than 10 bps to 0.77%. On other hand, Dollar index and US equity were largely flat after the speech.

On domestic front, G-sec bonds are likely trade with bearish bias amid spike in US yields. Interestingly, RBI’s operation twist of INR 20,000 cr remained insignificant in stemming the fall in bond prices. India’s 10 year bond yield is trading near 6.19% can spike toward 6.30% in short term. Yesterday, USDINR pair continued its downward journey as RBI was yet again missing from action. USDINR pair has tumbled to 73.60 levels in early trades. On weekly charts, USDINR pair has significant support near 73.50-55 levels, if broken on weekly basis there is little supports till 72.00

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