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European risk sentiment slips, USD firmer and Bonds bid post-FOMC
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European risk tone deteriorates with US futures also slumping into the red, potentially driven by EU fiscal focus, post-FOMC pullback and attention returning to tariffs/trade.
USD up vs. peers, Antipodeans lags, EUR slides and GBP eyes BoE.
Bonds are bid post FOMC & as the tone deteriorates, Gilts lead on data & reports around the Spring Statement.
Crude succumbs to the risk-off sentiment, with base metals also heading lower.
EURUSD DAILY CHART – Reversal of fortune but…

Damage not yet fatal
Daily chart shows 1.0822 as the key support, then a void,,, support at 1.0805 is important as well… 1.0805 is last week’s low so a break would create an outside week
Back above 1.0860, at a minimum, would be needed to slow the downside risk … 1.0850 will be pivotal in setting the intra-day tone
Pattern to watch (on Friday)… 1.09 traded for 8th day in a row… Break of this pattern often results in a directional move
Using my.platform as a HEATMAP shows

Head scratcher day
… the dollar trading firmer in the absence of any news, more than reversing the post-FOMC sell-off (except vs the JPY …about unchanged but USDJPY is off its 148.17 low
All in the aftermath of the FOMC decision where one word (transitory) sparked a reaction: bond yields down, stocks up, dollar down
Today… bond yields still down, stocks giving back some early gains, dollar up
SNB cut rates by 25bps… BOE rate decision is up next
Thursday’s highlights – See detailed previews
THU: BoE Announcement, SNB Announcement, Riksbank Announcement, PBoC LPR Setting, Australian Jobs (Feb), UK Jobs (Jan), Japanese CPI (Feb)
EURUSD 4h – After FOMC
Not much happened , and now we have a following situation:
Supports: 1.08600 & 1.08150
Resistances: 1.09150 & 1.09550
Close tonight above 1.09100 would be kind of Bullish for the coming day. That would create a chance for EUR to hit straight to 1.10200
However, a correction would be way better
I would like to see test of 1.08150 and then Up again…but 1.08600 might be just fine

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Good reading during the wait for the FOMC
What is President Trump’s Tariff Game Plan?
Watch the Dot Plots

FOMC dot plot projections are updated at today’s meeting. Given the economic uncertainties resulting from tariffs, Fed members will have a hard time making interest rate projections.
What is the dot plot?
The FOMC dot plot is a chart published by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve that shows the interest rate projections of its members. It is released four times a year as part of the Summary of Economic Projections (from the internet).
European rally faces tariff reckoning
Is it a time for some clear thinking ?
· STOXX 600 up 0.1%
· IT firm Softcat pops on results
· Fed rate decision awaited
· Turkish assets tumble
· Wall St futures inch up
· Fast money investors have been a key force behind this year’s strong rally in Europe, and now that real money flows are starting to pour in, tariff risks are back to the fore.
· This could keep volatility high and curb gains near term, say Barclays, pointing to the April 2 deadline by which reciprocal tariff rates in the U.S. are intended to take effect.
· “A ‘worst case’ 25% blanket tariff, should it materialise, would indeed take away most of the growth expected this year in Europe,” says strategist Emmanuel Cau at the UK bank.
· “However, US goods exports are only c.12% of revenues for (the STOXX 600)… And, with tariff losers underperforming notably ytd, some of the risks are arguably priced in.”
· Despite the short-term risks, Cau is upbeat about the long-term as a landmark fiscal reform in Germany will likely boost the broader European growth for 2026 and beyond.
· This could drive “more inflows/rotation”, Cau notes.
· As a result, Barclays has doubled its 2026 EPS growth forecast for the STOXX SXXP to 8%, lifting the year-end target to 580 from 545 – a 4.7% upside to Tuesday’s close.
EURO 1.0887
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PUPPY CAME TO REST ATM IN THE HIGHER 1.088″s after majestically failing to pierce N of 1.0950
on the larger time frames puppy still in uP trend and still I d be looking to B-o-minorDips
for this puppy to turn in its trand would probably take over 100 – 125 pips dump and stay there.
which raises the Q of what thinng would make the dollar rally thusly
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