EUR/USD bounces off monthly low to regain 1.0500 amid market’s indecision, Fed in focus.

EUR/USD licks its wounds around three-week low, pares intraday losses of late.US dollar cheers risk-aversion wave as hawkish Fed bets, China-linked news weigh on market sentiment.

EUR/USD picks up bids to consolidate daily losses around 1.0495, staying around the monthly low during a three-day downtrend amid early European morning on Monday. The major currency pair posted the biggest weekly losses since late April by the end of Friday after the US inflation data bolstered expectations of faster/heavier rate hikes by the Fed.

Technical analysis

The oversold RSI conditions challenge the pair’s further declines around a 1.5-month-old horizontal support zone, near 1.0470-60.

Alternatively, the corrective pullback may initially aim for the 61.8% and 50% Fibonacci retracements of May 13-30 upside, respectively around 1.0515 and 1.0570.

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AUD/USD News 

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Gold News 

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