German economy minister, Czech industry minister in joint statement: deeply concerned gas supplies to EU being used as a political weapon with deliberate intention to divide EU member states

Stand united to cooperate in case of complete disruption of gas supplies, which may occur in upcoming weeks

Finalize agreement on solidarity measures to safeguard security of supply between our countries ahead of winter season

This article was written by Ryan Paisey at www.forexlive.com.

(Reuters) – Spain’s Energy Minister Teresa Ribera urged Spanish companies on Monday to reduce imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia and search for alternatives.

„It is desirable that traders seek to minimise imports of Russian gas and diversify the contracts they may hold,“ she told a news briefing.

Spain’s energy minister went on to say that Spain is working on a gas contingency plan for the winter, although it is in a better situation than other EU neighbours.

It must be noted that due in part to Spain’s connections to Africa, Russian LNG only accounted for 11.9% of Spanish gas imports in May off 2022.

This article was written by Ryan Paisey at www.forexlive.com.

• When two currencies approach currency parity, a single unit of one may be exchanged for a single unit of the other. For the most important Forex pair in the world, EURUSD, it would mean that €1 buys $1
• Most traders prefer rounded currency values than random ones and they especially love parity, which is the single unit of 1. Algos and institutions selling the trades also love to trap bulls and bears around the round 1 number. Furthermore, news reporters love to write about that line in the sane. Support and resistance tend to emerge around rounded price levels because traders automatically put stops and take profits there.
• As the market is setting itself up for EURO and USD parity, we look at price levels to scale in for a possible Long and fade the recent move down, anticipating a rebound, even a partial one, that can offer an attractive reward vs risk ratio
• The trade idea is to aim to buy the Euro after it possibly crossed down and worth less than 1 USD. The idea is also relevant for buy and holders who want to find an interesting entry price for the long term hold of Euro
• The EURUSD trade idea is a Long with 3 buy orders

Trade Idea (Long EURUSD) with the Following Three Buy Orders for EURUSD:

EURUSD at 0.9957

EURUSD at 0.9917

EURUSD at 0.985

Average entry price for the EURUSD Long, conditional to all 3 buy orders being filled: 0.9908

Stop Loss: EURUSD at 0.97943 (4.25% higher than average entry price of the EURUSD Long position)

Take Profit: EURUSD at 1.03287 (1.15% lower than average entry price of the EURUSD Long position)

Reward vs Risk Ratio: 3.7 (reward is 3.7 times the risk)

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The Quad talks – involving Australia, India, Japan and the US – will take place in Sydney and the US is planning to leverage on that to seek cooperation from the countries involved on a price cap on Russian oil.

US energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, says that:

„We want to put on the table the option of joining a buyers‘ group that will heave greater market power to be able to lower the price, and therefore lower the price of Russian oil and lower the profits to Putin.“

In case you missed it, there were discussions by the US and its allies before this on capping Russian oil at around $40 to $60.

Well, the only thing I can say is that good luck getting India on board. Japan is also somewhat heavily reliant on Russian energy imports but they may be more easily swayed. As for India (and China), I just don’t see it happening.

This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.

UPCOMING
EVENTS:

Wednesday:
RBNZ Policy Announcement, BoC Policy Announcement, US CPI.

Friday: US
University of Michigan Sentiment Survey.

The market
focus this week will be entirely on the US CPI data on Wednesday. At the moment
the market expects a 75 bps hike at the July FOMC meeting with some little
pricing of 100 bps. A surprisingly hot CPI will certainly cause pain in the
markets and raise the pricing on the more aggressive 100 bps hike. We may even
see a positioning into the report. But let’s see first the other notable events
coming this week…

On Wednesday
the RBNZ is expected to hike the cash rate by 50 bps bringing it to 2.50%. The
RBNZ already stated that the monetary conditions will need to act as a
constraint on demand and the risk of doing too little too late is worse than
too much too soon (something the Fed is pursuing as well). Finally, the Bank of
Canada is expected to hike rates by 75 bps bringing the rate to 2.25% after the
hot CPI data cemented the more aggressive path.

The US CPI
data is expected to rise 8.7% for the Y/Y figure and 1.0% for the M/M reading
due to high energy and food prices. The Core measure is expected to cool a bit
with 5.7% Y/Y reading and 0.5% for the M/M one. As we saw in the previous
month, the Fed is responding aggressively to any upside surprise in inflation data,
and this means that another hot inflation report will put even more pressure on
them and kick a debate between 75 and 100 bps at the next meeting and no longer
the 50/75 as we’ve been seeing till now. The US Dollar would certainly
appreciate even more in case of an upside surprise.

Finally on
Friday we will get the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey. The
report is expected to show another dip in consumer sentiment to 49.0 making a
new record low for the series. Such an awful consumer sentiment is of course
really bad for the economy as a whole. The market will focus especially on the
long run inflation expectations as an uptick in the previous report acted as an
extra pressure for the Fed to go for the more aggressive 75 bps hike as Fed
Chair Powell stated himself.

In the
bigger picture, we are clearly in a recessionary cycle coupled this time with a
high inflation that forces the Fed to focus solely on tightening monetary
conditions and disregard economic growth. As of now, we have an equities bear
market, an inverted yield curve, big losses in commodities sensitive to global
growth like copper, a very strong US Dollar, high inflation, an aggressive
tightening by the Fed, consumer sentiment at record low and leading components
in the PMIs in contractionary territory. If this doesn’t scream to you that
we’re in a recession or heading into one, then you must be a very optimistic
person.

If we
weren’t coming off of such a high inflation rate but say a 3% one, then we most
probably would have had the Fed already cutting interest rates. But not this
time. Every cycle is the same except for what’s different. Keep in mind
the bigger picture and avoid being caught in the noise.

This article
was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta.

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