Forex Today: US Dollar Continues Retreat

Stock markets rose yesterday, but have weakened during the Asian session.Cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin/USD, are still not rising convincingly. However, Bitcoin’s key support level at $28,607 has continued to hold. This suggests that the line of least resistance in Bitcoin is likely to be upwards, so we may see a rise in value here over the coming days.Commodities mostly rose yesterday, especially agricultural commodities, but even the best performers are off their recent highs.There will be a release later today of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s Cash Rate and Monetary Policy Statement, which could trigger price movement in the New Zealand Dollar.There will be a release today of German Flash Services and Manufacturing PMI data, which could trigger price movement in the Euro.Daily new coronavirus cases globally rose last week after falling for eight weeks.It is estimated that 65.7% of the world’s population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccination, while approximately 6.7% of the global population is confirmed to have contracted the virus at some time, although the true number is highly likely to be much larger.Total confirmed new coronavirus cases worldwide stand at over 528.2 million with an average case fatality rate of 1.20%.The rate of new coronavirus infections appears to now be significantly increasing only in Belize, Chile, the USA, Jamaica, Panama, Portugal, and Taiwan.