Global stocks markets calmed by central banks’ generous currency interventions last week are doing quite well so far. EUR/USD and other currency pairs influenced by carry trade and subprime lending crisis chain reaction (mostly EUR/JPY and GBP/JPY) also don’t jump madly through and out the support and resistance levels anymore. But what will happen next? Will the markets just soak up the liquidity, thrown in by Fed and other countries’ financial authorities, and crisis will go on? Or will the carry trade trade go on, feeding credit sector with cheap JPY money and pushing EUR/USD, EUR/JPY and GBP/JPY to the new historical maximums?
Current situation doesn’t hint in favor of any possible outcome — both stock markets and currency pairs are slow. In my opinion, the best way to understand the next movement is to look on the Japanese Nikkei market index. So far (today and yesterday), it has been increasing slightly, signaling the normalization of market situation. A sharp fall or rise on Nikkei can mean a faster crisis unveiling (in case of fall) or a return to carry trade dominance markets (in case of rise, not necessarily sharp, strong and long growth signals that too).
Other good method is a GBP/JPY pair, which stabilized in 220–230 range. Breaking this range at 220 level will most probably signalize a continuous bearish trend in EUR/USD, EUR/JPY, GBP/JPY and global stock markets too. Breaking the 230 level can be a sign of the return to bullish trend on those currencies and other financial markets.
