US markets took Thursday off for the Thanksgiving holiday, keeping the Greenback at bay and setting up European-session traders for a fresh round of preliminary pan-European HICP inflation figures for November.
Here’s what you need to know on Friday, November 29th: The US Dollar Index slumped into a flat day on Thursday, trading flatly near the 106.00 handle as holiday-thinned market volumes took the wind out of US market session sails. The Greenback’s broad-market index has eased from year-plus highs set late last week, but rushing too quickly into a bearish USD stance could catch short-term traders off-guard with a snap back into the high side.
The UK has a clean data docket on Friday, although the Bank of England is expected to release its latest Financial Stability Report. USD/JPY reclaimed some lost ground on Thursday after a clean bounce off of the 200-day Exponential Moving Average near 150.50 during the mid-week market session. However, bullish momentum remains absent as Yen traders gear up for Japanese inflation figures early Friday. Core Tokyo Consumer Price Index inflation is expected to tick higher to 2.
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