{"id":168891,"date":"2020-04-17T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=168891"},"modified":"2020-04-17T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:22:14","slug":"fr40-analysis-fr40-is-rising-despite-weak-french-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2020\/04\/fr40-analysis-fr40-is-rising-despite-weak-french-data\/","title":{"rendered":"FR40 Analysis: FR40 is rising despite weak French data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-1180428649\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">April 17, 2020<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IFCMarkets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FR40 is rising despite weak French data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"emailSummary\">French economic data in the last couple of weeks after the report French economy contracted in fourth quarter of 2019 were weak. While retail sales growth increased in February, the deficits of budget, trade and current account came in bigger than feared. Thus, retail sales growth rose to 3.4% over year in February after 2.6% increase in previous month. However deficits of budget, trade and current account widened to bigger than expected 35.2, 5.2 and 3.8 billion euros respectively in February. At the same time, a smaller than expected slowing in industrial output growth over month in February was a positive development. Weak economic data are downside risk for FR40. Against the background of massive toll the shutdowns exacted on the country\u2019s economy the French government undertook fiscal and monetary stimulus programs to prop flailing businesses. Thus the government announced on March 17 a $49 billion aid package that includes : social security tax cuts, unemployment benefits for people forced to work part time, and a fund to help shopkeepers and the self-employed. At the same a loan guarantee program of up to $327 billion to help businesses was announced. Stimulus programs by numerous developed economies, including the US and European Union, buoyed investors\u2019 confidence, leading to recovery in equity markets.<\/p>\n<table class=\"analys_tbl\" style=\"padding: 5px 0; border: 1px solid #698da6; border-collapse: collapse;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<thead id=\"datapart\">\n<tr>\n<th>Indicator<\/th>\n<th>VALUE<\/th>\n<th>Signal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">RSI<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"indicator-signal\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Neutral<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">MACD<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"indicator-signal\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Buy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Donchian Channel<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"indicator-signal\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Neutral<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">MA(200)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"indicator-signal\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Sell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Fractals<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"indicator-signal\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Buy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Parabolic SAR<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"indicator-signal\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\">Buy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"emailSummary\">Summary of technical analysis<\/h2>\n<table class=\"recommendation\" style=\"padding: 5px 0; border: 1px solid #698da6; border-collapse: collapse;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><b>Order<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Buy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><b>Buy stop<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Above 4572.84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><b>Stop loss<\/b><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #698da6; padding: 5px;\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Below 4106.45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Market Analysis provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IFCMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By IFCMarkets FR40 is rising despite weak French data French economic data in the last couple of weeks after the report French economy contracted in fourth quarter of 2019 were weak. While retail sales growth increased in February, the deficits of budget, trade and current account came in bigger than feared. 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