EUR/GBP sees a sharp intraday turnaround in the post-BoE trading action
• Carney's comments offset BoE's lower economic growth forecasts.
• Sterling witness a solid turnaround and prompt aggressive selling.
The EUR/GBP cross faded the post-BoE bullish spike to levels beyond the 0.8800 handle and tumbled to 3-day low in the last hour.
The cross did get a minor boost and climbed to an intraday high level 0.8814 in a knee-jerk reaction to the BoE's downward revision of its economic growth forecasts for this year and 2020.
The UK central bank further added that the headline CPI could temporarily fall below 2% target in coming months and further dented the already weaker sentiment surrounding the British Pound.
The uptick, however, quickly fizzled out, rather met with some aggressive supply at higher levels following the BoE Governor Mark Carney's comments at the post-meeting press conference.
The British Pound witnessed a solid turnaround after Carney clarified that although Brexit uncertainty is hurting the economy, markets should not prepare for a scenario of a rate cut and (or) no further rate hikes.
The cross tumbled to levels below mid-0.8700s, retreating nearly 80-pips from session tops, as market participants now look forward to some fresh Brexit updates from the UK PM Theresa May's meeting with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Technical levels to watch
EUR/GBP
Overview:
Today Last Price: 0.8736
Today Daily change %: -0.59%
Today Daily Open: 0.8788
Trends:
Daily SMA20: 0.879
Daily SMA50: 0.8905
Daily SMA100: 0.8868
Daily SMA200: 0.8866
Levels:
Previous Daily High: 0.8818
Previous Daily Low: 0.8772
Previous Weekly High: 0.8795
Previous Weekly Low: 0.8636
Previous Monthly High: 0.9119
Previous Monthly Low: 0.8617
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%: 0.879
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%: 0.88
Daily Pivot Point S1: 0.8768
Daily Pivot Point S2: 0.8748
Daily Pivot Point S3: 0.8723
Daily Pivot Point R1: 0.8813
Daily Pivot Point R2: 0.8838
Daily Pivot Point R3: 0.8858