Reserves meanwhile fell by $72B in the latest week, with an accompanying fall in the Treasury Genera...
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USDCAD continues to trade closer to its recent lows. The bull cycle that started Feb 14 is intact and moving average studies remain in a bull-mode position, highlighting a dominant uptrend. A near-term key support to watch lies at 1.4242, the Mar 6 low. Clearance of this level would undermine the bull theme and instead highlight potential for a test of 1.4151, the Feb 14 low and a bear trigger. The bull trigger is 1.4543, the Mar 4 high.
Bloomberg reported that there was a US crude inventory drawdown of 4.6mn barrels last week with 600k at Cushing, according to people familiar with the API data. Products continued to decline with gasoline down 3.3mn and distillate 1.3mn. The official EIA data is out later today.