{"id":164624,"date":"2020-02-07T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=164624"},"modified":"2020-02-07T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:22:02","slug":"dollar-reigns-supreme-into-the-weekend-as-nfp-beats-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2020\/02\/dollar-reigns-supreme-into-the-weekend-as-nfp-beats-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar reigns supreme into the weekend as NFP beats expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-2817682146\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">February 7, 2020<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By Lukman Otunuga, Research Analyst, <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"field-body\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>It was a fairy tale ending to a positive week for king Dollar after non-farm payrolls for January smashed market expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The mighty Dollar appreciated against every single G10 currency excluding the Japanese Yen as\u00a0investors cheered the fact that the United States added an impressive 225,000 jobs to its economy. Although the unemployment rate slightly edged up to 3.6%, it is still around historic lows. While average earnings picked up to 3.1% from year earlier \u2013 compared with 2.9% in December.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the data is certainly encouraging with the US labour markets alive and kicking in the face of global growth concerns.<\/p>\n<p>This positive sentiment is not being fully reflected in the Dollar as of writing. However further upside should be on the cards as confidence improves over the US economy.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a look at the technical picture, the Dollar Index is trading around 98.50\u00a0as of writing. A breakout above 98.50 should open a path towards 98.90 and 99.30.<\/p>\n<p>If 98.50 proves to be reliable resistance, the Dollar Index could sink back towards 97.80.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forextime.com\/images\/maa\/_dxydaily_132.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer: <\/strong>The content in this article comprises personal opinions and should not be construed as containing personal and\/or other investment advice and\/or an offer of and\/or solicitation for any transactions in financial instruments and\/or a guarantee and\/or prediction of future performance. ForexTime (FXTM), its affiliates, agents, directors, officers or employees do not guarantee the accuracy, validity, timeliness or completeness, of any information or data made available and assume no liability as to any loss arising from any investment based on the same.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54242 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Forex-Time-Logo.png\" alt=\"Forex-Time-Logo\" width=\"262\" height=\"90\" \/><strong>Article by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ForexTime Ltd (FXTM)<\/strong> is an award winning international online forex broker regulated by CySEC 185\/12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forextime.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.forextime.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lukman Otunuga, Research Analyst, ForexTime It was a fairy tale ending to a positive week for king Dollar after non-farm payrolls for January smashed market expectations. The mighty Dollar appreciated against every single G10 currency excluding the Japanese Yen as\u00a0investors cheered the fact that the United States added an impressive 225,000 jobs to its [&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-164624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164624","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=164624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164636,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164624\/revisions\/164636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}