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Mar 4, 2019, 12:00 PM GMT
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Non-Farm Payrolls Report in the US on Friday

The past several weeks have been pivotal for the greenback and its moody price swings, owing mostly to political events, such as the Hanoi summit between Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un (more on that you can find in our detailed analysis of the event here); the US/China trade negotiations; Michael Cohen's testimony at Congress and the rising tensions between India and Pakistan.

It seemed that the US economics was side-lined to global political events and policy, but now the market is bracing for another round of American data and the most important measurement of US unemployment.

As we can see from the above daily chart of the Dollar Index spot, the price action has formed a bullish flag and currently is trading between the fundamentally significant Fibonacci levels of 23.6% and 38.2%. On the last NFP release date, the actual data pushed the US dollar index in an upswing, which can be expected again, provided that the data on Friday manages to exceed expectations. Overall, we can expect the price to test the range's boundaries in the mid-term which are respectively 97.70 and 95.60