Market Patrol 02 September 2021

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Indicative Selling Rates
against MUR
USD

25 Apr 2024

AUD
30.77
0.6565

BWP
3.43
0.0733

CAD
34.51
1.3581

CNY
6.56
7.1473

DKK
6.83
6.8649

EUR
50.42
1.0758

HKD
6.08
7.7125

INR
0.57
82.0612

JPY
30.50
153.6760

KES
35.48
132.1115

NZD
28.10
0.5994

NOK
4.36
10.7536

SGD
34.80
1.3468

ZAR
2.52
18.6007

SEK
4.37
10.7251

CHF
51.57
1.1003

GBP
58.71
1.2526

USD
46.87
1.0000

AED
12.96
3.6157

The dollar-rupee slipped by 5 cents to 42.80(Selling) in the wake of Bank of Mauritius intervention yesterday.

Fundamental News

EUR/USD
The Shared currency regained traction to $1.1834, although German retail sales contracted 5.1% MoM in July and 0.3% from a year earlier.

GBP/USD
The Cable climbed to $1.3877 after UK Final Manufacturing PMI beats estimates in August.

USD/JPY
The Japanese yen recovered to 110 against the greenback after softer than expected U.S. private labour data on Wednesday.

AUD/USD
The Aussie dollar flew to $0.7368, with Australia releasing better-than-expected trade data for July earlier in the day.

USD/CAD
The Canadian dollar ticked down to 1.2624 against the U.S dollar as oil prices bear the burden of Russian support to OPEC+ output hike.

USD/ZAR
South Africa's rand extended recent gains to 14.41 ahead of the U.S. jobs report on Friday, which is expected to guide the timing of the Federal Reserve's pullback in bond buying.

USD/MUR
The dollar-rupee slipped by 5 cents to 42.80(Selling) after the Bank of Mauritius' intervention yesterday.

Fundamental & Technical Data

Economic Indicators-Local Time

16:30 - USD - Initial Jobless claims

Central Bank Interest Rates

Last Change

New Meeting

Federal Bank of U.S

16-Mar-2020

22-Sep-2021

European Central Bank

0.00%

10-Mar-2016

09-Sep-2021

Bank of England

0.10%

19-May-2020

23-Sep-2021

Bank of Japan

-0.10%

28-Jan-2016

21-Sep-2021

Reserve Bank of Australia

0.10%

03-Nov-2020

07-Sep-2021

S.Africa Reserve Bank

3.50%

23-Jul-2020

Reserve Bank of India

4.00%

22-May-2020

08-Oct-2021

Bank of Mauritius

1.85%

16-Apr-2020

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Market Correlation is a measure, statistical or observational, that gives a positive or negative link between the pricing of multiple currencies.

Bulls & Bears Levels

Resistance and Support

Levels

EUR/USD

GBP/USD

USD/JPY

USD/ZAR

1.1929

1.3867

110.89

15.84

1.1893

1.3833

110.65

15.54

1.1866

1.3800

110.35

15.38

1.1830

1.3766

110.11

15.25

1.1803

1.3733

109.81

14.93

1.1767

1.3699

109.57

14.66

1.1740

1.3666

109.27

14.21

Technical Analysis - Forex Charts

EURGBP riding wave C

Chart updated on 21.06.2021

127% appears to be good level for short term rebound to the upside for GBPJPY

Chart posted on 21.07.2021

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