• USD/CAD hovers near 1.3600, the potential breakdown region of the Broadening Triangle chart pattern.
• Investors keenly await Fed Powell’s speech at the JH Symposium.
• The Canadian Dollar will dance to the tunes of the monthly Retail Sales data for June.

The USD/CAD pair falls back below 1.3600 after a short-lived pullback move to near 1.3616 in Friday’s European session. The Loonie asset weakens as the US Dollar (USD) struggles to hold Thursday’s recovery move, driven by better-than-estimated preliminary United States (US) S&P Global PMI for August.

The US Dollar Index (DXY), which tracks the Greenback’s value against six major currencies, falls to near 101.30. The Greenback is expected to remain on the sidelines, with investors focusing on the Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at the Jackson Hole (JH) Symposium.

In the JH event at 14:00 GMT, Jerome Powell is expected to provide fresh guidance on interest rates and the economic outlook. The Fed is widely anticipated to start reducing its key borrowing rates from the September meeting but traders are split over the likely size of interest rate cuts.

Meanwhile, the Canadian Dollar (CAD) will be influenced by the domestic monthly Retail Sales data for June, which will be published at 12:30 GMT. The Retail Sales data, a key measure of consumer spending that prompts inflationary pressures, is estimated to have declined consequently. The consumer spending measure is expected to have contracted by 0.3% after dropping 0.8% in May.