{"id":110243,"date":"2017-08-03T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=110243"},"modified":"2017-08-03T12:45:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:45:42","slug":"market-watch-thursday-august-3nd-euro-slows-aussie-has-dropped-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/08\/market-watch-thursday-august-3nd-euro-slows-aussie-has-dropped-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Watch \u2013 Thursday August 3nd \u2013 Euro slows, Aussie has dropped, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-225799397\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">August 3, 2017<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><b>By<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/mexgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mexgroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Euro slows down after rally.\u00a0<\/strong>The euro has slowed down after hitting its 2 \u00bd year high of $1.19105\u00a0last night. The euro has lost its support from expectations of changes in European Central Bank policy. The recent build-up of euro bullish bets for a test of the $1.20 level points to the risk of a pull-back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dollar index pulls up from 15-month lows<\/strong>. After sliding to 92.548, its weakest level since May 2016 on Wednesday the dollar index rose about 0.1% on Thursday.\u00a0The dollar is seriously oversold against every other currency and &#8220;should&#8221; correct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GBP is steady ahead of the rate decision.\u00a0<\/strong>Sterling held steady ahead of the Bank of England&#8217;s (BoE) interest rate decision due later on Thursday. The pound last changed on Wednesday, it rose to $1.3250, its highest level in nearly 11 months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aussie has dropped on Trade Balance report.\u00a0<\/strong>After the release of data that showed\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/australias-june-trade-balance-disappoints-drop-in-exports-weigh-201708030132\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=ro&amp;q=https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/australias-june-trade-balance-disappoints-drop-in-exports-weigh-201708030132&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1501843452552000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4D_2sfesDguQ4U335vzlvxSWl_g\">trade surplus<\/a>\u00a0narrowed more than expected in June, largely on account of a 1% drop in the exports, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/rates-charts\/audusd\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=ro&amp;q=https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/rates-charts\/audusd&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1501843452552000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZKupcBoMVQD5rjSYSRnOa4b8Rzw\">AUD\/USD<\/a>\u00a0pair hit a 6-week low of 0.7924.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AUD\/USD Technical Levels<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"inves-592378381\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>A break below 0.7892 [23.6% Fib R of 0.7328-0.8066] would open up downside towards support level 0.7787 and 0.7749. On the higher side, breach of resistance at 0.7963 could yield a revisit to 0.80 and 0.8043.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.mexgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AUD-30817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2111\" src=\"http:\/\/en.mexgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AUD-30817.jpg\" alt=\"AUD 30817\" width=\"1016\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"http:\/\/en.mexgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AUD-30817.jpg 1016w, http:\/\/en.mexgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AUD-30817-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/en.mexgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AUD-30817-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.mexgroup.com\/blog\/market-watch-thursday-august-3nd-euro-slows-aussie-dropped\/\">Market Watch &#8211; Thursday August 3nd &#8211; Euro slows, Aussie has dropped, and more<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.mexgroup.com\/blog\">mexgroupblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mexgroup.com \u00a0Euro slows down after rally.\u00a0The euro has slowed down after hitting its 2 \u00bd year high of $1.19105\u00a0last night. The euro has lost its support from expectations of changes in European Central Bank policy. The recent build-up of euro bullish bets for a test of the $1.20 level points to the risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110244,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110243\/revisions\/110244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}