Analysts at ING point out that the EUR/CHF cross is still trading very narrow ranges and doesn’t seem to be responding to Italian risk much these days.
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“For what it’s worth, we note that the one year 25 delta Risk Reversal is narrowing sharply – meaning the cost of insuring against a downside break in EUR/CHF is declining. Thus looking at EUR/CHF alone, it seems that investors are not increasing their bets on another Eurozone crisis.”
“The Swiss data calendar is light, but in theory EUR/CHF should come under pressure from soft Eurozone 3Q18 activity data.”
“Also, keep a watch on how USD/CHF trades near 1.0100. A break above here could encourage fresh follow-through buying from model-based funds and actually help EUR/CHF a little higher.”
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