Week in FX Americas – When Will The Loonie Begin Its Real 'Fall From Grace'?

Why is the CAD not any lower? Gold is off $60, crude is down $3 and Friday's US data disappointed. As per usual, for an uninteresting currency that has been trading in a contained range so far this year, it is not surprising to witness a delayed reaction. The market should expect the loonie bears to come out of hibernation and finally want to sell some of their CAD dollars.

The currency bears will point to Gold's long-term support levels been broken - there is danger that this move lower continues. The next real level of support for the yellow metal is around the $1475 area. It will be very interesting to see how the commodity bulls will react first thing next week.

There was no real news that sparked the Friday afternoon gold move lower. It feels like the commodity bulls finally lost interest and threw in the towel. Prudently, we should expect more investors to step aside so as to wait and see how far this market shake out progresses. Many have to be wondering...