Created
: 2024.08.22
2024.08.22 16:19
The Mexican Peso (MXN) extends losses in its key pairs on Thursday. The decline broadens the trend of the last few days, which has seen MXN lose 1.50% to 1.90% on Wednesday after a similar decline on Tuesday.
Traders now await potentially market-moving data out of both Mexico and Europe on Thursday, and prepare for Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson Hole on Friday.
At the time of writing, one US Dollar (USD) buys 19.31 Mexican Pesos, EUR/MXN trades at 21.53, and GBP/MXN at 25.28.
The Mexican Peso's 1.50% fall against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday came about despite the release of broadly negative Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) revisions to Nonfarm Payrolls and the US Federal Reserve's (Fed) July meeting Minutes, which revealed policymakers are more open to cutting interest rates. The expectation of lower interest rates is generally negative for a currency as it reduces foreign capital inflows.
The US Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) released their revisions for Nonfarm Payrolls in the year to March 2024 and these showed an aggregate downward revision of 818,000 to payrolls for the previous 12 months, which translates to an average of 68,000 per month. This is likely to add to concerns regarding the health of the US labor market and the US economy experiencing a hard landing. This is especially the case in light of the "flash crash" that followed the release of a weak July NFP number, which came out below expectations at 114,000, whilst the US Unemployment Rate edged up another notch to 4.3%.
Although the US Dollar outperformed the Peso, the US Dollar Index (DXY) - which tracks the value of the Dollar against a trade-weighted basket of counterparts - did hit a new year-to-date low during the Asian session on Wednesday before rebounding, prior to the release of the weak BLS data and the Fed Minutes.
Thursday sees the release of more data for the Peso and its pairs.
Mexican 1st Half-Month Inflation for August and Q2 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data will be published by INEGI at 12.00 GMT. Followed by the Minutes from the Banco de Mexico's (Banxico) August policy meeting.
In the Eurozone and UK, meanwhile, preliminary Purchasing Manager Indexes (PMI) for August will be released at 8.00 and 8.30 GMT, respectively. Similar data for the US will be published at 13:45 GMT.
Eurozone wage negotiations data will also be released at 9:00 GMT on Thursday, and could color the outlook for inflation in the region. This in turn could influence the trajectory of monetary policy by the European Central Bank (ECB) with implications for the Euro (EUR) and EUR/MXN.
USD/MXN extends its gains, further reversing the prior evolving down leg within the pair's broader rising channel.
The long green up days posted on Tuesday and Wednesday could indicate the short-term trend is changing and the pair may be about to begin a new up leg within the channel.
USD/MXN had been looking like it was unfolding in a bearish abc pattern within its rising channel, however, wave "c" has failed to extend all the way down to the lower channel line.
The pair has also now broken above the top of wave "b" at 19.10, tilting the odds in favor of bulls. The break could indicate a stronger up move is underway, that could take the pair back up to the channel highs at roughly 20.50.
The overall trend on the medium and longer-term time frames is arguably up, suggesting a bullish backdrop that provides extra support to the view that a new upward move is underway.
The 1st half-month core inflation index released by the Bank of Mexico is a measure of price movements by the comparison between the retail prices of a representative shopping basket of goods and services. The purchase power of Mexican Peso is dragged down by inflation. The inflation index is a key indicator since it is used by the central bank to set interest rates. Generally speaking, a high reading is seen as positive (or bullish) for the Mexican Peso, while a low reading is seen as negative (or Bearish).
Read more.Next release: Thu Aug 22, 2024 12:00
Frequency: Monthly
Consensus: 0.12%
Previous: 0.71%
Source: National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico
Created
: 2024.08.22
Last updated
: 2024.08.22
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