Looking for value in the Viking cross
Sept 13 (Reuters) -The decline in NOK/SEK since May's 2024 high of 1.0125 is nearing a key support point and, with interest rate differentials still favouring the NOK, a bullish opportunity may present itself in the coming sessions.
Apart from a brief dip below the support level in December 2023, the 0.9500 support point has held the market since November 2020.
A drop to 0.9505 in early August found bids and the subsequent rebound took the Viking cross to a high of 0.9821. However, since peaking at 1.0125 in May the cross has recorded three straight bearish monthly closes and September could rack up a fourth.
The underlying weekly and monthly trend favours the SEK but there might be scope for a correction while the 0.9500 level is intact. Within the shorter-term daily chart, a bullish reversal might already be underway. This week's price action has hinted at market indecision at levels around 0.9540-50 and a Thursday-Friday rally has taken the NOK close to the 10-day moving average line, today at 0.9613.
Fibonacci retracement levels taken off the recent 0.9821-0.9539 Aug. 15-Sept. 11 drop provide upside targets at 0.9606, 0.9647 and 0.9680.
The main risk to the rebound scenario is a softer more dovish line from the Norges Bank next week as its policy drivers begin to shift away from a hawkish path.
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NOK/SEK weekly candle chart: https://tmsnrt.rs/3TtqyLw
(Peter Stoneham is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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