Euro-to-Dollar Week Ahead Forecast: Lion's Share of Gains Complete

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Summary:

The Euro's uptrend against the Dollar is losing steam.

The Euro-to-Dollar exchange rate's 2025 recovery accelerated last week, rising to its highest level since November on Tuesday, when it hit 1.0946.

EUR/USD has broken above its 200-day moving average, shifting the exchange rate into an uptrend that advocates for a multi-week move higher.

However, it became overbought on short-term timeframes with a Relative Strength Index (RSI) level tabove 70. It has since pared some of those gains as overbought conditions unwind and is quoted at 1.0878 at the start of the new week.

For now, the pullback looks to be a consolidation in an uptrend as opposed to the start of a more protracted pullback.

Dips are proving shallow, and the RSI is still pointed higher and advocating for more upside, even if it is still flirting with overbought conditions with a current reading of 70.

The upside target for the week ahead is a retest of the 2025 high at 1.0946.

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Above: EURUSD at daily intervals.

Support looks to be building at 1.0824, with three tests of this level recorded last week, suggesting this is where dips are being bought into.

The overarching theme guiding price action in Euro-Dollar is the fading of the U.S. exceptionalism narrative that was so dominant in 2024, and this can continue.

U.S. economic growth has slowed amidst policy uncertainty coming from the White House, with the April 02 tariff announcements being judged as a key risk.

Markets judge that tariffs are unambiguously detrimental to the U.S. economic outlook, and the Dollar has struggled as Trump has pursued them.

At the same time, Euro exchange rates have been bolstered by the unexpected shift in policy in Germany towards more spending in order to rejuvenate the country's infrastructure and defence sector.

"The euro is benefiting from higher long-term yields and hopes for massive investment programmes. These could help to get the European (and especially the ailing German) economy back on track. After years of misery, this is finally a real glimmer of hope to stand up to the US dollar," says Birgit Henseler, an analyst at DZ Bank.

The Euro found strength on Friday after it was confirmed that the Green Party are on board with incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz's plans to borrow more to spend on defence and infrastructure.

However, analysts warn of the potential for a more sober assessment of the outlook to emerge, which can weigh on the Euro.

Davide Oneglia, analyst at TS Lombard, says the recent experience of the €100bn special fund for the German army shows that permitting new projects is a lengthy process in Germany.

Currency analysts at Commerzbank warn the Euro could be set to fall "quite sharply" in the coming weeks as "euphoria" over Germany's spending plans are dealt a dose of reality.

Commerzbank economists do not expect Germany's planned stimulus to have an effect until next year at the earliest. They also warn that Germany has historically struggled to spend, even when the money is made available.

"This year, growth in the euro area could even be weaker if Trump follows through on his tariff announcements on EU imports in the near future. In short, we expect the EUR-USD exchange rate to fall quite sharply in the coming weeks," says Michael Pfister, FX Analyst at Commerzbank.

U.S. tariffs on the EU remain a risk and could tip an export-oriented economy like Germany’s back into recession. This is according to a recent warning from Joachim Nagel, who serves as the President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and is a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.

While the charts suggest that the upside is preferred in the coming week, we think the lion's share of the rally is now complete, which is why the Week Ahead forecast is relatively contained.

To be sure, the potential for a pullback is growing, but we're not confident that this is the week for it to happen.

Source: Poundsterlinglive

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