Markets pause ahead of Fed

Morning Report: 08.45 London

• This morning, financial markets are treading carefully ahead of today’s FOMC meeting. Expectations are high for a positive move, but there is a danger that these expectations might go unfulfilled as the downside risk increases.

 The Australian dollar is performing well this morning as is the the NZD/ USD which is recovering after confusion regarding a ratings downgrade.

  

  

 

  

 

    

 

 Coming up today:

• German unemployment change is due at 08.55, with a small rise of 1k expected.

• At 12.15 we have ADP non farm employment change, followed by core CPI at 12.30. The big ticket is of course the FOMC statement at 18.00.



Trade Idea:

• Fed days traditionally have a positive bias and indeed expectations are extremely high for today’s meeting. However as Rob Hanna points out – This bias completely disappears when markets hit a 20 day high the day before.



 Given that expectations are so high, it might be best to bet on disappointment today. A LOWER trade predicting that the EUR/ USD closes below 1.3700 at tomorrow’s close could return 196% if successful.

This Daily Market Report is written by Dave Evans, Professional Trader. This is presented as an idea to stimulate binary option trading ideas and is not a financial advice.

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