Fed & Dollar: Expectation and moves; Trump's tweets & Euro

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President Trump said Tuesday morning that Xi Jinping had agreed to meet with him at the Group of 20 summit next week. “We will be having an extended meeting next week at the G-20 in Japan. Our respective teams will begin talks prior to our meeting.” Trump wrote on Twitter. Markets are reacting to this tweet as a signal to relax. However, on our point of view withdrawal from safe-haven assets premature, the growth in demand for risky assets is a dubious idea. The thing is, the conflict parties need to be returned the the negotiation table.

Also, Another news that triggered a surge in activity in the foreign exchange market was the statement by the head of the ECB, Mario Draghi, that the rate cut by the ECB is considered by the Central Bank as part of the tool for additional stimulation of the economy. Traders rushed to sell euros. We'll take it slow. Draghi voiced that have already been said by ECB's officials earlier. Well, interest rate management is the basic toolkit of the monetary policy of any Central Bank. So we do not share the enthusiasm of euro sellers and continue to recommend using such descents for its purchases.

Well, the main event of the week will be the announcement of the decision of the Federal Open Market Committee on the parameters of monetary policy in the United States. Many people are waiting for lowering interest rates. But if you look at the likelihood of this event, then at the moment it is estimated at 22%, while 78% of traders believe that the rate will be left unchanged. But at the same time, the situation in July is radically different: only 15% believe that the rate will remain at the current level, and 85% think that the rate will be lowered (at least by 0.25% and 18% believe that the decline will generally be 0.5% ).

The fact is that the current situation seems ambiguous, so we are supporting those ones who are supporting the lowering. On the one hand, the trade war is uncertainties and risks to the economy. But on the other hand, 10 years in a row, economic growth in the United States has actually shown that it is too early to panic. The data on NFP this month came out disastrous, but retail sales and industrial production in the United States showed good growth. That is, we have a certain balance in the pros and cons of the rate cut today. And this gives the most obvious reason for the US Central Bank to continue to withstand a pause.

The question arises "what to do with the dollar ?". Here our position is unequivocal - sell. The chances that the Fed will give reasons for the revitalization of buyers are insignificant. Unless there will be an unequivocal statement about the inexpediency of lowering rates in principle. But the probability of this is extremely small. But the likelihood of the phrase that at the next meeting the rate may be lowered, on the contrary, seems to us quite possible. And this is a signal against the dollar.

So, our trading preferences are unchanged: we will look for points for selling the US dollar primarily against the Japanese yen, as well as the euro and the pound, selling oil and the Russian ruble, as well as buying gold.