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EUR/USD & GBP/USD price action before economic data


29 March 2023

This preview of the weekly data looks at EURUSD and GBPUSD, where economic data and the general financial situation in the banking industry are the main drivers in the markets for the time being. This week will likely be a busy week for the Euro with economic data releases from Germany, European inflation reports, and unemployment rates. On Thursday, German inflation figures for March will kickstart investors' interest ahead of a busy Friday session.

After an aggressive bullish rally for the euro against the U.S. dollar in the last quarter of 2022 until early February 2023, the price has corrected to the downside with some minor gains seen in the last couple of weeks.

This week’s data is expected to create some volatility for euro pairs with many eyes being set on the “Fiber” chart. Friday, being the busiest day in terms of data, investors and traders might pay attention to the figures of inflation and unemployment rates coming from Germany and the European Area. Investors should also monitor ECB member speeches throughout the week. ECB Executive Board members Frank Elderson, Isabel Schnabel, Andrea Enria, and ECB President Christine Lagarde are due to speak.

This week will likely be a busy week for the Euro with economic data releases from Germany, European inflation reports, and unemployment rates

On the technical side, the price on the fiber chart has found resistance on the upper band of the Bollinger bands last Thursday “forcing” it to correct around the $1.07600 area which is trading at the time of this report. The Bollinger bands are expanding indicating volatility build-up, which is expected to peak for this week around publication hours on Friday. The Stochastic oscillator is not indicating any extreme overbought or oversold levels, while in the event of a short-term correction to the downside we could possibly expect some support around the $1.06800 area, which consists of a point on the chart where it combines all technical indicators of the 20,50 & 100 moving averages, as well as the 23.6% of the daily Fibonacci retracement level.

GBPUSD, daily

Even Though this should be a quiet week for the British pound with no economic indicators for the investors to consider, the daily chart possesses some interesting facts. Last week the British inflation rate came in hotter than expected at 10.4% with the consensus at 9.9%, while the Bank of England (BoE) raised interest rates by 25 basis points reaching 4.25%. These data could be translated into the narrative that the possibility of further interest rate hikes from the BoE is still very high.

From the technical standpoint, the price is trading in a sideways channel for the last three months with $1.24500 & $1.18000 being the upper and lower levels of the channel respectively.

The price was touching the upper band of the Bollinger bands for a whole week before moving away in recent sessions. This is usually, but not always, considered to trigger a correction on the charts. Even though this correction is not yet seen on the daily chart, there are also other indications of a correction scenario. 

The price was touching the upper band of the Bollinger bands for a whole week before moving away in recent sessions

The Stochastic oscillator is in the extremely overbought area, while the Bollinger bands are expanding, indicating that volatility is still high in the market. If this is the case and we see a downward correction on the cable chart then the price might find support at the strong technical area of $1.21300. This area is made up of the 20,50 and 100-day moving averages, and is also just above the daily Fibonacci retracement level of 23.6%. For this to play out, the price needs to break below the psychological support of the round number at $1.22. On the other hand, if we see a continuation to the upside, we might see resistance building up around $1.24, which consists of the inside resistance area since early February 2023, the upper band of the Bollinger bands as well as the psychological resistance of the round number.

Top 5 economic data releases for this week

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