Action Insight Mid-Day Report 4-23-18
| Action Insight Mid-Day Report 4-23-18 | | Dollar Marches on as 10 Year Yield Presses 3% | Dollar's broad based rally extends today with the support of surging US treasury yield. 10 year yield hit as high as 2.99% in premarket, and is flirting with 3% level. Meanwhile, Japanese yen are trading as the weakest one. Euro suffered some selling earlier today after mixed PMI data. In particular, EUR/CHF's rejection from 1.2 key level become clearer. But selloff Euro is overwhelmed by weakness in Yen, Aussie and Kiwi. Movement in US yields will remain the main focus in US session as US PMIs and existing home sales are the only feature in the calendar. |  | 
|  | AUD/USD Mid-Day Outlook Daily Pivots: (S1) 0.7639; (P) 0.7685; (R1) 0.7715; More... AUD/USD drops to as low as 0.7633 so far today. Break of 0.7642 confirms resumption of whole decline from 0.8135. Intraday bias remains on the downside for 0.7500 key support level next. Break there will indicate medium term reversal. On the upside, above 0.7682 minor resistance will turn intraday bias neutral and bring consolidations. But recovery should be limited below 0.7812 resistance to bring fall resumption. |  | | GMT | Ccy | Events | Actual | Forecast | Previous | Revised | | 00:30 | JPY | PMI Manufacturing Apr P | 53.3 | 53.4 | 53.1 | | | 07:00 | EUR | France Manufacturing PMI Apr P | 53.4 | 53.5 | 53.7 | | | 07:00 | EUR | France Services PMI Apr P | 57.4 | 56.5 | 56.9 | | | 07:30 | EUR | Germany Manufacturing PMI Apr P | 58.1 | 57.5 | 58.2 | | | 07:30 | EUR | Germany Services PMI Apr P | 54.1 | 53.7 | 53.9 | | | 08:00 | EUR | Eurozone Manufacturing PMI Apr P | 56 | 56.1 | 56.6 | | | 08:00 | EUR | Eurozone Services PMI Apr P | 55 | 54.6 | 54.9 | | | 12:30 | CAD | Wholesale Trade Sales M/M Feb | -0.80% | 0.80% | 0.10% | | | 13:45 | USD | US Manufacturing PMI Apr P | | 55.2 | 55.6 | | | 13:45 | USD | US Services PMI Apr P | | 54.1 | 54 | | | 14:00 | USD | Existing Home Sales Mar | | 5.55M | 5.54M | | | | |