Today 05/11/09 forex news
The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) non-manufacturing business index fell 0.3 percentage points in October to 50.6 from 50.9 in September. Economists were expecting the index to rise to 51.5.
This moderate decline in the index can be attributed to declines in employment, inventory, and imports which outweighed the growth reported in price and new export orders. Imports, inventories and employment contracted. Imports fell 5.5 percent to 46. Inventories contracted 4.5 percent to 43. The employment index fell 3.2 percent to 41.1. New export orders rose 5 percentage points to 53.5 and prices rose 4.2 percentage points to 53.
The major knowledge to come out of the report was that new export orders had their best showing since October 2007, but the headline number was pulled down by the disappointing drop in the employment component, which saw its worst reading since May.
The employment component pullback counters the brief optimism after Monday’s much-improved ISM manufacturing report, which showed an increase of 6.9 points in the employment component to 53.1. However, The ISM manufacturing report has more history behind it than ISM services, and has a tighter correlation to the NFP report on Friday. Manufacturing only makes up about 9% of non-farm payrolls as opposed to 69% for private services, but manufacturing employment can be quite volatile, so it can heavily sway the payrolls readings.
In total, FX traders should know that the net effect of today’s ISM reports should not be significant, with perhaps a little more risk of a slightly weaker than expected number. Combined with this morning’s as-expected ADP report, there probably won’t be any major NFP forecast revisions from the end of last week, when Reuters showed a median nonfarm payrolls forecast of -175k.
Nevertheless, today’s news contributed to a broad-based rally in the Eurodollar, as seen in the below chart. This indicates that many easy FOREX traders may have been expecting major disappointments, and thus today’s roughly as-expected actual figures were in effect a positive surprise, contributing to Euro strength and Dollar weakness. Tonight’s FOMC statement will likely have a strong impact on how the Eurodollar actually finishes the session.

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THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR?
November 29, 2009Why the US Will Keep the Dollar Down and the EURUSD will Break 1.5000, at least for Now
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
Policymakers in the United States usually claim that they are in favor of a strong dollar. We often hear that a strong Dollar is in the best interests of the world, especially Americans.
Now let’s talk about the truth: US Policymakers are very pleased that the dollar is weak and getting weaker.
Why? The theory is that a weak dollar at this point in the business cycle will actually benefit the United States, ignoring the risk that foreign investors will lose faith in the greenback and not buy U.S. debt. It works like this: a weak dollar helps exports while curbing imports. Besides reducing the US trade deficit, a weak dollar gets people to buy less, especially from other countries.
This is definitely a plus for industries like the US auto industry, which has seen many customers abandon their products for cars made abroad. It logically also benefits many of their suppliers. About half of American companies’ earnings are generated abroad. The stronger other currencies are versus the USD, the more attractive American products are to foreign countries.
A weak dollar also reduces the need for U.S. firms to outsource, and fire American workers. If the dollar gets weak enough, some jobs might actually be brought back to the US.
As for the risk that foreign investors will lose faith in the greenback, essentially no other currency rivals the dollar when it comes to safety and ease of moving funds in and out. So this is not seen as a huge risk.
But what about all of the businesses that rely on imports for re-sale to the American consumer? These businesses will undoubtedly need to raise their prices, making non-US goods much more expensive for the consumer. This brings up the potential by-product of inflation.
According to Economics 101, the value of the dollar (or any other currency) is determined by supply and demand.
Today, world financial markets are overloaded with dollars due to the actions of the Federal Reserve. But lately, the central bank has been hinting about taking some of these dollars back, once it thinks that the economy is in recovery mode. Eventually, it will be forced to do just that, especially if the weak dollar leads to inflationary concerns.
Does this suggest that the battered buck is more likely to be stronger rather than weaker a year or two from now? Yes. As dollars become less plentiful, their value will rise as will foreign investor willingness to hold them. The threat of inflation will diminish as well.
Easy forex bottom line: Near-term expect the dollar to continue to suffer. The EURUSD looks headed towards breaking the critical 1.5000 level, and will encounter some selling pressure at 1.5010. Looking out one to two years, don’t rule out a sustained Dollar rebound.
EURUSD : Support 1 – 1.4920 Support 2-1.4850 Resistance 1- 1.5000 Resistance 2- 1.5010
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