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The U.S. dollar has recovered moderately in early European trade Thursday, reversing earlier losses, but the long-term prognosis for the greenback continues to look less healthy.

At 3:AM ET (0700 GMT), the ICE (NYSE:ICE) Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, was up 0.1% at 96.135. EUR/USD dropped 0.1% to 1.1398, GBP/USD dropped 0.3% to 1.2544, and USD/JPY was flat at 106.92. 

Helping the dollar Thursday has been the continued rise of Covid-19 cases globally, as a flurry of localized outbreaks across the world pushes the overall number of infections to 13.5 million and the death toll to nearly 600,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

China reported a 3.2% growth in its second-quarter GDP year-on-year, a sharp bounce back from the first quarter’s 6.8% contraction, although the yuan weakened slightly as monthly data showed a surprising drop in retail sales that suggested ongoing weakness in consumer demand. 

“Global market trends are increasingly looking like a renewed relative rotation out of the stay-at-home winners (tech, USD) towards reflation trades (Dax, energy, EM FX) and not a global/US growth scare,” said analysts at Danske Bank, in a research note. 

“We continue to see EUR/USD as being part of this rotation,” Danske added. “With this in mind (and we have not even begun to price Brexit optimism) we have started to think we can overshoot our short-term 1M and 3M target at 1.15.”

The Dollar Index is expected to weaken about 2% to 94.1 by the second quarter of next year, according to an analyst survey compiled by Bloomberg. 

Additionally, Deutsche Bank’s Trade-Weighted Dollar Index has dropped more than 1% so far this month, Bloomberg reported, and is set to test the trendline in place since 2011, a break of which would be an important signal for dollar bears. 

Looking ahead, the European Central Bank meets later Thursday, but is unlikely to deliver another easing package so soon after June’s moves.

“We expect a repetition of recent comments from various governing council members, thereby striking a cautiously optimistic tone compared to the June projections

Important U.S. economic data are due later Thursday, with initial jobless claims set to a slowly improving employment situation, while analysts will be watching to see if May's big jump in retail sales can be repeated.

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• EUR/USD corrects lower after recent tops around 1.1450.
• A test of the YTD peak just below 1.15 stays on the cards.

After recording new 4-month tops around 1.1450 on Wednesday, EUR/USD is now shedding some ground and slips back below the 1.14 mark.

The ongoing downside is seen as corrective only, leaving the probability of a visit to yearly tops near 1.15 well on the table in the short-term horizon.

Furthermore, as long as the 200-day SMA, today at 1.1055, holds the downside, further gains in EUR/USD are likely.

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India's electricity generation during the first half of July fell at a slower pace than in June, provisional government data showed, as industries and commercial establishments opened up after further following gradual easing of lockdowns.

Power generation fell 3.1 percent in the first 15 days of July compared with the same period last year, a Reuters analysis of daily load despatch data from federal grid operator POSOCO showed, compared with a 9.9 percent fall in June.

In the second half of June, electricity generation declined 5.3 percent.

While power use has picked up from previous months when India was under a strict lockdown, electricity demand - which is impacted by seasonal changes - is still lower when compared with the same periods from the previous year.

Industries and offices account for over half of India's annual power use. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been citing electricity consumption to show there are "greenshoots" in the Indian economy.

Major industrial states such as Maharashtra, Gujarat in the west and Tamil Nadu in the south continued to witness steep drops in electricity use amid higher incidence of coronavirus cases.

However, many states with smaller yet significant industrial profiles saw growth in power demand for the first time since Modi announced a nationwide lockdown in March.

The northern state of Uttar Pradesh - India's most populous and home to the largest number of medium and small scale enterprises (MSMEs) in the country - witnessed a 10.1 percent growth in electricity use.

Other states including Bihar, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh - all of which are known for MSMEs - saw an uptick in power demand.

Seasonal factors including hot weather could have fuelled higher power demand.

The states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have also seen a rise in coronavirus cases in the recent days, which could impact power demand. Bihar has also announced a lockdown beginning Thursday and ending July 31.

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• NZD/USD is staying under bearish pressure following Wednesday's climb.
• Upbeat GDP data from China failed to provide a boost to NZD.
• US Dollar Index is staging a recovery ahead of key data.

The NZD/USD pair gained around 30 pips on Wednesday but struggled to preserve its bullish momentum on Thursday. As of writing, the pair was down 0.45% on the day at 0.6540.

Eyes on US data

Earlier in the day, the data from China showed that Industrial Production expanded by 4.8% on a yearly basis in June and the Gross Domestic Product expanded by 11.5% on a quarterly basis in the second quarter. However, annual Retail Sales in China contracted by 1.8% in June and didn't allow the China-proxy NZD to gather strength against its rivals.

Meanwhile, the souring market sentiment put additional weight on the risk-sensitive kiwi's shoulders and caused the bearish pressure to remain intact.

In the second half of the day, the weekly Initial Jobless Claims and Retail Sales data will be featured in the US economic docket. Ahead of these data, the US Dollar Index (DXY) is up 0.2% on the day at 96.23 and the S&P 500 futures are losing 0.65% on the day. If risk-aversion continues to dominate the financial markets in the second half of the day, the DXY could push higher and drag the pair toward 0.6500.

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The slump in the dollar is threatening to bring to an imminent end its near-decade-long uptrend against major peers.

Deutsche Bank’s Trade-Weighted Dollar Index -- a gauge of the currency against the U.S.’s most important trading partners -- has fallen to test the trendline in place since 2011, a break of which would be an important signal for dollar bears. The index has dropped more than 1% so far this month amid weakening demand for havens, an ongoing rally in risk assets and a shift in sentiment toward currencies like the euro and yuan.

Dollar strength has been a feature of much of the last 10 years. The trade-weighted basket climbed over 40% from the 2011 low to its recent peak in March, at the height of coronavirus fears. Yet a growing chorus of commentators is calling for the currency to decline, as the global economy attempts to recover from the impact of the pandemic.

The ICE (NYSE:ICE) U.S. Dollar Index -- another gauge of the currency -- is expected to weaken about 2% to 94.1 by the second quarter of next year, according to an analyst survey compiled by Bloomberg. It traded around the 96 level Thursday.

“Improving domestic economic trends in the euro area and China, as well as our rising conviction in structural dollar weakness over time, reinforce our view that the dollar is poised to weaken against these major currencies,” wrote Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). strategist Zach Pandl this week.

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The loonie gained on the dollar on Wednesday after the Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate unchanged and said the slump in the economy was not as bad as feared.

USD/CAD fell 0.73% to C$1.3512, its lowest in since July 9.

The Bank of Canada (BoC) kept its benchmark interest rate at the effective lower bound of 0.25% and vowed to keep rates unchanged until at least 2023.

In a boost to hopes of a robust recovery, the central bank said recent data had suggested the economy had bottomed in April.

"We now estimate that the economy contracted by about 15 percent in the first half of this year," the central bank said in its monetary policy statement. "As deep as this is, it suggests the economy has avoided the most dire scenarios we laid out in the April MPR. In the third quarter, we expect to continue to see a strong rebound in jobs and output."

The BoC did, however, its 2022 growth outlook, indicating that "permanent scarring from the COVID-19 pandemic (less investment, less immigration, permanent business closures) will reduce the economy’s long-term productive capacity by 4%," RBC said.

The central bank also pledged to continue to purchase bonds in an effort to keep rates low across the yield curve and support lending activity.

"The bank will continue its large-scale asset purchase program at a pace of "at least $5 billion per week of government of Canada bonds," said BoC governor Tiff Macklem.

Beyond monetary policy, the loonie was also supported by a rise in oil prices and upbeat Canadian manufacturing data.

Manufacturing sales in Canada rose by 10.7% in May, beating expectations for a 9.5% increase.

Manufacturing could likely build on the gains made in May as early reports for June - improvements in the Canada manufacturing PMI and a jump in manufacturing hours worked -  have been a "little more positive

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