Home USD/CAD stabilizes after a post rate decision shakeup
Forex News Today: Daily Trading News

USD/CAD stabilizes after a post rate decision shakeup

The Bank of Canada left the interest rate unchanged at 1% as unanimously expected and did not  really alter the statement. Yet the no-change doesn’t mean no action.

USD/CAD  traded in a choppy manner in a range of over 50 pips, but eventually settled at around 1.0760, basically unchanged from the hours before the publication.

On one hand, inflation has picked up, and  this gave a boost to the C$ in recent weeks. However, the BOC seems unexcited from this change.  It can  shrug off the data as a one time event. Canada releases fresh  inflation data on Friday, and this may push Stephen Poloz and his colleagues to respond, at least in wording.

Yet on the other hand, the recent employment data was quite disappointing, and this may be behind the push to maintain a relatively dovish stance.

Earlier in the day, Canadian  manufacturing sales beat expectations with a rise of 1.6% against 1% expected for the month of May.

USD/CAD is supported at 1.0750, followed by 1.0710. Resistance awaits at 1.08. For more, see the Canadian dollar prediction.

Yohay Elam

Yohay Elam

Yohay Elam: Founder, Writer and Editor I have been into forex trading for over 5 years, and I share the experience that I have and the knowledge that I've accumulated. After taking a short course about forex. Like many forex traders, I've earned a significant share of my knowledge the hard way. Macroeconomics, the impact of news on the ever-moving currency markets and trading psychology have always fascinated me. Before founding Forex Crunch, I've worked as a programmer in various hi-tech companies. I have a B. Sc. in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University. Given this background, forex software has a relatively bigger share in the posts.