Canadian dollar losing on oil and equity weakness

Key Movers

After starting the day down yesterday against the basket of major currencies, the USD made gains throughout North American trading yesterday which have held through the overnight sessions.  The USD index (DXY) that started yesterday at just over 104 on the index is now up to 105.54.  The moves yesterday were in large part due to stronger ISM and factory order prints, making investors second guess a slower pace of rate hikes from the Fed.  The ISM Non-Manufacturing survey showed an increased confidence amongst purchasing managers at a rating of 56.5. This was both a beat of the expected 53.5 and an improvement from the previous month.  Trade Balance numbers came in early Tuesday showed a better than expected deficit of -$78.2B.

The euro is seeing minimal moves today and with a lack of data for the rest of the week, movement on the euro will be tied to broader market sentiment.  Traders will have little to work with ahead of the FOMC announcement next Wednesday and the ECB rate call on Thursday.

The USD/JPY cross saw its biggest one-day gain since June in the overnight Asian sessions. This came on the back of general USD recovery as well as comments from BoJ governor Kuroda that that the bank is likely to continue it’s “easy monetary policy”.  In other Asia-Pacific news, the Australian dollar made gains against the USD after the RBA raised it’s rates by 25 points to 3.10%.