Today was purely technical day in currency markets.Let’s go over some news what what are worth to mention. 25 of the 27 EU nations signed the fiscal compact (UK & Czech Republic declined).ECB’s Costa that the LTRO was “very efficient and timely to eliminate risk of abrupt slowdown.Greek PM Papademos says that commitments to the PSI have been “significant” so far. ECB deposits rose EUR776.9 billion today from EUR475.2 billion on Wednesday,previous record high was EUR528.2 billion.Analysts say that surge in deposits isn’t positive or negative and surge doesn’t mean banks aren’t using ECB cash.News from Spain also dampened sentiment Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his government, will prepare a 2012 budget that aims to reduce its deficit to 5.8% of gross domestic product, far in excess of the 4.4% target his predecessor, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, had committed to. Also according to “IMF sources” IMF contribution will be cut back from the previous 33% stake (Greek loan package 1) to just 10 to 15% what is not good news for Euro. Maybe they are trying to add pressure to Germany who is not willing to raise ESM from 500bn limit.
EUR/USD – During Asian session EUR/USD was supported by EUR/JPY what was supported by reports that Japan beverage maker Asahi was the frontrunner in the bid for east European beer brewer StarBev overnight. And Japanese CPI continued to show deflationary pressures, household spending was much worse than expected but the jobs-applicants ratio at its highest since November ’08. Later in the session support for headline pair evaporated. Asian sovereign tried to support EUR/USD below 1.3300 handle but the pressure was too much and we moved down. We managed to stabilize under 1.3200. Bears are targeting 1.3000. twitpic.com/8r0u9b

