Fed chair Powell risk to according to FX options
July 9 (Reuters) -The market is awaiting for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to deliver his semi annual testimony before the banking committee of the U.S. senate at 10:00 a.m. in New York (1400 GMT) on Tuesday and related FX option pricing can offer clues about the expected FX reaction.
FX volatility is an unknown yet key parameter of an FX option premium, so dealers use implied volatility as a substitute. A perfectly priced option would see realised volatility equal implied volatility over its tenure.
Overnight expiry is the next working day at 10:00 a.m. in New York and is the shortest duration option, so any increase to its implied volatility when including a key event will show the additional FX volatility that dealers expect that event to generate.
Overnight expiry options now include Powell's testimony, but related implied volatility has failed to add any additional risk premium. In fact - overnight EUR/USD implied volatility is actually trading a new recent low at 5.5. That is a premium/break-even for a simple vanilla straddle of just 25 USD pips in either direction.
For context, overnight expiry EUR/USD implied volatility jumped from 6.0 to 9.5 when including Friday's U.S. NFP data - a premium/break-even of 43 USD pips in either direction.
Overnight USD/JPY implied volatility is unchanged at 8.25 early Tuesday - a premium/break-even of just 55 JPY pips in either direction, having traded around 13.0 or 90 JPY pips in anticipation of Friday's NFP.
In Portugal last week, Powell said the Fed still needs more data to ensure inflation has moderated sufficiently, so Thursday's U.S. CPI data will hold much more significance than any earlier reiteration of that fact from Powell.
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(Richard Pace is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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