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Market Patrol 22 March 2021

Perhaps wisdom is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

Anthony Bourdain
Indicative Selling Rates
against MUR
USD
26 Apr 2024
  • AUD
  • 30.81
  • 0.6583
  • BWP
  • 3.44
  • 0.0736
  • CAD
  • 34.56
  • 1.3545
  • CNY
  • 6.55
  • 7.1468
  • DKK
  • 6.83
  • 6.8533
  • EUR
  • 50.43
  • 1.0774
  • HKD
  • 6.07
  • 7.7145
  • INR
  • 0.57
  • 82.0087
  • JPY
  • 30.36
  • 154.1916
  • KES
  • 35.30
  • 132.5951
  • NZD
  • 28.14
  • 0.6011
  • NOK
  • 4.36
  • 10.7396
  • SGD
  • 34.76
  • 1.3465
  • ZAR
  • 2.54
  • 18.4356
  • SEK
  • 4.36
  • 10.7346
  • CHF
  • 51.60
  • 1.1024
  • GBP
  • 58.79
  • 1.2560
  • USD
  • 46.81
  • 1.0000
  • AED
  • 12.95
  • 3.6161
U.S dollar swarmed up across the board after Turkey's President Ergodan fired his central bank governor .
Fundamental News

EUR/USD
The single currency lost ground to $1.1891 after the Fed tempered a rise in yields brought on by its decision to ditch an exemption to leverage rules about Treasuries, allowing a temporary pandemic regulatory break in the capital rule known as the "supplementary leverage ratio" to expire this month.

 

GBP/USD
Sterling plummeted to $1.3857 due to increasing anxiety regarding the post-Brexit situation in Northern Ireland.

 

USD/JPY
Yen edged up to 108.77 per dollar on BoJ's Kuroda's comment that a 2% inflation target helps stabilize FX rates and that there is no need to change it.

 

AUD/USD
The Aussie tumbled to $0.7729 following PBOC kept one-year and five-year loan prime rates unchanged at 3.85%, 4.65% in that order.

 

USD/ZAR

South African rand inched lower to 14.81 against the greenback on U.S dollar strength undermined by President Tayyip Erdogan's decision to replace the hawkish central bank governor with a critic high-interest rates.

 

USD/MUR
The dollar-rupee soared by 5 cents to 40.75(selling) on the domestic market.

Fundamental & Technical Data
Economic Indicators-Local Time

17:00 - USD - Fed Chair Powell Speaks

18:00 - USD - Existing Home Sales (Feb)

Central Bank Interest Rates
Last Change
New Meeting
Federal Bank of U.S
0.00-0.25%
16-Mar-2020
28-Apr-2021
European Central Bank
0.00%
10-Mar-2016
22-Apr-2021
Bank of England
0.10%
19-May-2020
06-May-2021
Bank of Japan
-0.10%
28-Jan-2016
27-Apr-2021
Reserve Bank of Australia
0.10%
03-Nov-2020
06-Apr-2021
S.Africa Reserve Bank
3.50%
23-Jul-2020
-
Reserve Bank of India
4.00%
22-May-2020
07-Apr-2021
Bank of Mauritius
1.85%
16-Apr-2020
-
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Bulls & Bears Levels
Resistance and Support
Levels
EUR/USD
GBP/USD
USD/JPY
USD/ZAR
R3
1.1999
1.4074
109.67
15.56
R2
1.1968
1.4017
109.40
15.11
R1
1.1936
1.3945
109.15
14.97
PP
1.1905
1.3888
108.88
14.84
S1
1.1873
1.3817
108.62
14.64
S2
1.1842
1.3759
108.35
14.52
S3
1.1810
1.3688
108.10
14.39
Markey update on Biz Week by Christie Ng
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