Hiyo FX peeps! Here’s a weekly chart of the GBPCHF pair. As you can see, the pair has been trading sideways after hitting a low of 1.5118 back in December 29 back in 2008. Just recently, however, the Swiss franc was able to hurdle below the 1.5825 marker against the British pound. Given this price action, the next support that I see for the GBPCHF pair is the low that it marked in 2008 (1.5118). Hence, the pair could fall back to around the mentioned low unless it is able to climb over the support-now-turned-resistance at 1.5825.
The main event of this week for the UK will be the will be the monetary policy decision of the Bank of England (BOE) on Thusday (September 9). Last month, the bank’s MPC kept its monetary policies unchanged. It left its interest rate at 0.50% and its asset purchase facility at 200 billion. The UK’s economy began to grow during the last quarter of last year. It even expanded by 1.2% during the second half of this year. The bank, however, views that there is still a big chance that this recovery will not be sustained. It said that there are still a lot of uncertainties and risks surrounding the UK’s market.
From then until now, the UK’s economic environment remains mixed. While the country’s retail sales came out with a 1.1% growth against the 0.7% consensus, the country’s home prices remain subdued. In fact, the UK’s HPI is on a 3-month losing streak, dipping by another 0.9% during the last month. Both manufacturing and services PMI also showed weakness during the last couple of periods. Switzerland, on the other hand, showed surprising 4.8% jump in their retail sales, more than doubling the 2.3% market estimate. So between the UK and Switzerland, the later appears to be the less fragile.
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