Market Review 14 May 2020

by Constantinos Loizou

  • In today’s Economic calendar we can expect to see some volatility in the EUR and USD.
  • At 06:00 (GMT), Eurostat, the Statistical Office of European Union announced the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) for Germany
  • The HICP is a measure of prices used by the Governing Council of EU to define and assess price stability in the Euro zone area in quantitative terms.
  • The result remained unchanged as the previous month at 0.8%.
  • At 12:30 (GMT), the United States Department of Labor will release their Initial Jobless Claims for the previous week.
  • The result is forecasted in a decrease to 2500K, considering that last week was at 3169K.
  • AT 15:00 (GMT), Luis De Guindos, Vice President of the European Central Bank will give a speech.

 

On the Charts

 

  • As we can observe on the Dow Jones Daily chart, the price has formed a failure swing formation, since the last top is lower than the previous one.
  • The price is now at $23,083 below the previous support.
  • The price is also below its 20 days Moving Average, which it broke and retested.
  • The momentum indicator, RSI is below 50 at 45, while its price broke to the downside support (red dashed line).
  • Considering the above, if the price closes below its support (blue line), we may see it moving lower to $22,425, a price which consists the 161.8% Fibonacci Extension Level (From 23,204 to 24,475) and an inside support.