EUR/USD consolidates near 1.0900 as investors shift focus to the US monthly Retail Sales and the ECB policy meeting.
The ECB is expected to leave interest rates unchanged.
Monthly US Retail Sales are estimated to have remained unchanged in June.
EUR/USD hovers in a tight range near the round-level figure of 1.0900 in Tuesday’s European session as the upside move stalls with a focus on Thursday's European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy meeting. The major currency pair is broadly firm as investors expect the ECB will not deliver subsequent rate cuts.
The ECB is expected to leave its key rates unchanged as policymakers worry that an aggressive policy-easing approach could uplift price pressures again. In the last monetary policy meeting, the ECB forecasted the price pressures to remain at their current levels for the entire year.
As the ECB is expected to keep interest rates at their current levels, investors will focus on cues about when the central bank will cut interest rates again. Currently, financial markets expect that the ECB will cut interest rates two times more this year. The ECB is expected to deliver rate cuts in the September and December meetings.
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