{"id":259071,"date":"2024-03-05T04:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=259071"},"modified":"2024-03-05T04:32:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:02:23","slug":"gbp-usd-grapples-with-1-2700-handle-as-markets-bid-into-a-hefty-trading-week-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/gbp-usd-grapples-with-1-2700-handle-as-markets-bid-into-a-hefty-trading-week-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"GBP\/USD grapples with 1.2700 handle as markets bid into a hefty trading week &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"fxs_article_content\">\n<p>\n                        <span class=\"fxs_socialmedia_bar_share_label\">Share:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BRC Like-For-Like Retail Sales the biggest-hitting UK data this week.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>US NFP looms ahead on Friday, ADP employment preview on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fed rate cut hopes are on the rise once again, but Fed Chair Powell remains a threat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GBP\/USD climbed into the 1.2700 handle on Monday before falling back, paring away some of the day\u2019s gains but hitting the rollover higher than it started.<\/p>\n<p>The UK sees only a thin showing on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/economic-calendar\/united-states\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\">the economic calendar<\/a> this week, and another US <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/macroeconomics\/economic-indicator\/nfp\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\">Nonfarm Payrolls<\/a> (NFP) labor print on Friday sees investors gearing up for another kick at the can on how soon the Federal Reserve (Fed) will begin cutting interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s UK BRC Like-For-Like Retail Sales for the year ended February are expected to print at 1.6% YoY versus the 1.4% previous. On the US side for Tuesday, the ISM Services Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for February is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/rates-charts\/forecast\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\">forecast<\/a> to tick lower to 53.0 from the previous month\u2019s 53.4.<\/p>\n<p>US labor figures feature heavily this week, with ADP Employment Change on Wednesday followed by Friday\u2019s NFP report. ADP Employment Change is forecast to jump to 150K for February versus the previous 107K, while this Friday\u2019s NFP is currently forecast to fall back to 200K from the previous 353K.<\/p>\n<p>Fed <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/macroeconomics\/central-banks\/fed\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\">Chairman Jerome Powell<\/a> will also be making an appearance this week, testifying before the US Congress\u2019 House Financial Services Committee regarding the Fed\u2019s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report. Plenty of soundbites and headlines are expected over the two day central bank showing, beginning on Wednesday and wrapping up Thursday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fxs_headline_medium\">GBP\/USD technical outlook<\/h2>\n<p>GBP\/USD found a hard technical barrier at the 1.2700 handle on Monday, but the pair managed to eke out a thin gain on the day, gaining around a quarter of a percent by the closing bell.<\/p>\n<p>The pair continues to find technical support from the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) at 1.2578, but near-term technical resistance at 1.2700 is capping off bullish momentum and preventing a topside recovery into last December\u2019s peak bids near 1.2800.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fxs_headline_medium\">GBP\/USD hourly chart<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"fxs_headline_medium\">GBP\/USD daily chart<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial.fxstreet.com\/miscelaneous\/GBP_USD-638451882558923378.png\" style=\"width: 1706px;height: 921px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share: BRC Like-For-Like Retail Sales the biggest-hitting UK data this week. US NFP looms ahead on Friday, ADP employment preview on Wednesday. Fed rate cut hopes are on the rise once again, but Fed Chair Powell remains a threat. GBP\/USD climbed into the 1.2700 handle on Monday before falling back, paring away some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,276,366,641,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-259071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-currencies","tag-fed","tag-gbpusd","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259073,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259071\/revisions\/259073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}