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February 21, 2018
February has been quite a volatile month so far for the emerging currencies market together with some interesting strengthening stories (South African Rand) and others not so much (see Brazilian Real and Russian Ruble).
In the midst of all this, the American dollar is still weak and dominates the scene beginning to create some annoyances in economic areas like China and Euroland itself. Let's now look at the evolution of the main emerging currencies in detail.
The increase in rates in Mexico has allowed the Peso to consolidate the gains of the last few weeks in a still positive context for the Central American currency, as we can see from the inclination of the now descending oscillator.
The graph shows a typical bearish head and shoulder figure in formation with neck line in transit in area 18. Only a downward break of this level would favour a decisive upgrade in favour of the Peso with very ambitious targets between 14 and 15. For the moment we must take note that we are going through a consolidation phase after Trump post-election downward excesses. Technically, there are enough conditions for further downturns of UsdMxn and above all in light of a seasonality of March that seems to be very favourable to the Peso, strengthening in 16 of the last 20 years.
UsdZar is attacking the last supports, technical levels between 11.50 and 12 representing the last support line according to the Fibonacci fan line technique. This price zone is very important from a technical point of view also because in these parts we can find the tops of 2008, a level that UsdZar violated in 2015 before launching towards the historical tops of area 18. The news of the resignation of President Zuma has given force to the Rand that since December had shown signs of appreciation for the outcome of the general elections. Now that the political process will have an acceleration, will the South African Rand have the strength to overcome the important medium-term supports?
The exit attempt from the lateral phase by UsdBrl seems to have failed for the moment. The weakness of the Brazilian Real in a context of relative weakness also for the US dollar produced nothing but a shift from one side of the technical triangle to the other. Even if the resistance of 3.30 has been strong enough till now, the support of 3.10 could be pressurized. Only the exit from one of these two sides would clearly determine a trend that has been absent for over a year on UsdBrl.
Our view is still favourable to the Turkish Lira against the Dollar. UsdTry should in fact resume the bearish march interrupted in recent months after a first major fall from the top of 3.96. We can see a critical support level at 3.70 in the undergoing consolidation without major problems in case of a fall down to 3.60, a transit zone of the moving average and the bullish trend line in place since 2014.
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March 22, 2018
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March 08, 2018
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February 08, 2018
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January 24, 2018
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December 21, 2017
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November 24, 2017
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October 25, 2017
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October 13, 2017
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September 13, 2017
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