Weekly Fundamental US Dollar Forecast: Mr. Powell Goes to Washington
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Fundamental Forecast for the US Dollar: Neutral
The main event of the week will be Fed Chair Jerome Powell heading to Capitol Hill for two days of testimony to deliver the semi-annual Monetary Policy Report.
But traders shouldn’t sleep on the US economic calendar. The upcoming January durable goods orders and PCE/Core PCE price indexes may further enflame inflation fears, sparking more gains by US yields.
The IG Client Sentiment Indexsuggests the US Dollar has a mixed bias heading into the last week of February.
US Dollar Lower as Inflation Expectations, Yields Rise