Canadian Dollar Maintain Gains after BoC, Supported by Oil

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Mid-Day Report: Canadian Dollar Maintain Gains after BoC, Supported by Oil

Canadian dollar maintains gain in early US session after BoC left rates unchanged, and with help from rise in crude oil prices. BoC kept the overnight target rate at 1.00% as widely expected, with bank rate and deposit rates unchanged at 1.25% and 0.75% respectively. The bank noted that "global economic recovery is proceeding broadly as expected" and so was in Canada. The GDP growth of annualized 3.9% in Q1 "continued strong business investment, smaller contributions from household and government spending, and a modest drag from net exports". Underlying inflation is still "relatively subdued" while headline CPI is expected to climb to above 3% in near term but convergence with core inflation at 2% by middle of 2012. BoC finally noted that "considerable monetary policy stimulus currently in place will be eventually withdrawn" but "such reduction would need to be carefully considered." So basically, BoC continues to lean towards tightening bias but the next time would unlikely happen in near term.

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GMT Ccy Events Actual Consensus Previous Revised
23:30 JPY Household Spending Y/Y Apr -3.00% -2.80% -8.50%
23:30 JPY Unemployment Rate Apr 4.70% 4.70% 4.60%
23:50 JPY Industrial Production M/M Apr P 1.00% 2.20% -15.50%
23:50 JPY Industrial Production Y/Y Apr P -14.00% -12.40% -13.10%
01:00 NZD NBNZ Business Confidence May 38.3
14.2
01:30 AUD Building Approvals M/M Apr -1.30% -1.80% 9.10%
01:30 AUD Current Account (AUD) Q1 -10.4B -10.1B -7.3B
05:00 JPY Housing Starts Y/Y Apr 0.30% -3.90% -2.40%
05:45 CHF GDP Q/Q Q1 0.30% 0.70% 0.90%
06:00 CHF UBS Consumption Indicator Apr 1.59
1.66
06:00 EUR German Retail Sales M/M Apr 0.60% 1.80% -2.70%
07:55 EUR German Unemployment Rate May 7.00% 7.00% 7.10%
07:55 EUR German Unemployment Change May -8K -30K -37K -33K
09:00 EUR Eurozone CPI Estimate Y/Y May 2.70% 2.80% 2.80%
09:00 EUR Eurozone Unemployment Rate Apr 9.90% 9.90% 9.90%
12:30 CAD Industrial Product Price M/M Apr 0.50% 0.70% 0.90%
12:30 CAD Raw Materials Price Index M/M Apr 6.80% 4.20% 5.70%
13:00 CAD BoC Rate Decision 1.00% 1.00% 1.00%
13:00 USD S&P/Case-Shiller Composite-20 Y/Y Mar -3.60% -3.40% -3.30%
13:45 USD Chicago PMI May
62.3 67.6
14:00 USD Consumer Confidence May
66.
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Trade Idea Update: USD/CHF – Sell at 0.8595

As the greenback has continued to edge higher after rebounding from 0.8476, retaining our view that further consolidation above recent low at 0.8457 would take place and mild upside bias remains for retracement to 0.8591-93 (current level of the Ichimoku cloud top and 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of 0.8814 to 0.8457), however, renewed selling interest should emerge there, bring another decline.

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Pairs Covered: EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, USD/CHF

Elliott Wave Daily Trade Ideas Update Schedule (GMT):
AUD/USD, EUR/JPY: 0800 - 0830; EUR/GBP, USD/CAD: 1330 - 1400

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