EUR/USD Forecast 14 July 2026: The 1.1400 Base Is Gone
By Ken Chigbo · Founder, KenMacro · 18+ years in markets, London trading floor and institutional FX
Updated 2026-07-14 08:05 BST · spot 1.1390 (TwelveData, Yahoo Finance, TradingEconomics cross-verified)
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The EUR/USD forecast for 14 July 2026 opens with the pair at 1.1390, having lost the 1.1400 range base and printing near a one-year low. With the Iran naval blockade, a 20% Hormuz toll and a July hike now near 43% on CME FedWatch, the euro carries the terms-of-trade damage. June CPI at 13:30 BST decides the next leg.
NAMED LEVELS WORTH WATCHING
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Upside liquidity (resistance):
- 1.1400 · the broken range base. The level the euro has lost and now has to reclaim. Flipped to resistance.
- 1.1450 · the cap any bounce has to clear. Where Friday’s rally stalled.
- 1.1475 · the band that rejected the euro last week.
Downside liquidity (support):
- 1.1370 · the first support beneath the broken base.
- 1.1300 · the deeper objective if a hot core confirms the hike trade.
- The one-year low · the structural line the euro opened near this morning.
The Macro Setup Behind Today’s EUR/USD Forecast
The base has gone. The euro sat on 1.1400 into Monday’s close and opened Tuesday at 1.1390, a one-year low, with the DXY holding 101.20 after Monday’s surge. The 101.02 cap on the dollar index has flipped to support, and that is not the tape of a currency about to give back a repricing. It is the tape of a market that has decided the repricing is deserved.
The catalyst is not subtle. Trump has notified Congress of a new war against Iran, CENTCOM reinstates the naval blockade on Iranian vessels today at 21:00 BST, and the White House is levying a 20% toll on all cargo transiting the Strait of Hormuz, roughly a fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas (CNBC, POLITICO). Brent sits at 84.72, up 1.70% today after rising 9.6% the prior session, roughly 11% in two days. WTI is at 79.57. The US 10-year is at 4.61%, up from 4.54% on Friday. The war has widened: Saudi airstrikes hit Sanaa International Airport on Monday, the Houthis retaliated with drones and missiles on Abha, no casualties reported (Washington Post, AP, Al Jazeera).
This is the split that has broken 1.1400. Europe imports its energy. A crude spike now being taxed at 20% through Hormuz is a straight terms-of-trade hit for the euro at the same time as it is a rate-support story for the dollar. EUR/USD has repeatedly been the cleanest expression of the Fed path, and in every energy shock of the last cycle the euro has carried the damage while the dollar took the yield, which is exactly the split showing up in the tape this morning. The full daily read on regime shifts like this is the kind of thing that drops each morning inside the MACRO MASTERY desk.
The repricing on the Fed is where the story lives. A July 29 hike is now priced at about 43% on CME FedWatch (43.3% hike against 56.7% no change, zero for a cut on contract ZQN6), with Investing.com’s Fed Rate Monitor deriving 43.2% from the same futures. CNBC has quoted it as high as 46.5% intraday. Kalshi has the July hike at 36%, up from under 20% on Sunday and under 10% earlier this month. Fed funds are 3.50 to 3.75%; a hike takes them to 3.75 to 4.00%.
Governor Christopher Waller has published the trigger. In his 13 July speech, he said that if there is another hot reading on core inflation, the FOMC “will need to consider tightening monetary policy in the near term”, and that he will not repeat “the mistake we made in 2021 by not responding sooner” (Federal Reserve Board). Direct quote: “Sternly staring at inflation until it melts before our withering gaze is not an option.” Balance him honestly: he warned against fighting the last war, noted the labour market is far less tight than 2021 and market-based inflation expectations remain anchored near 2%. He wants more data. But the reaction function is now public, and it is not the headline. It is core.
June CPI lands at 13:30 BST. Consensus is a headline of minus 0.1% on the month, cutting the annual rate from 4.2% to about 3.9%, the first decline in four months, because US pump prices fell about 10% in June. Core is expected at plus 0.2% on the month, with the annual core steady at 2.9%. Chair Kevin Warsh then testifies to the House Financial Services Committee at 15:00 BST, ninety minutes after the print, on his debut semiannual testimony. He cannot dodge the number.
Here is the desk’s edge, because everyone will trade the headline and the headline is the trap. Today’s June CPI is structurally blind. The expected negative headline is mechanically an energy base effect from a June when US pump prices fell about 10%, the fourth-largest monthly drop in a decade. June CPI measures June. It cannot see the blockade, it cannot see the 20% toll, it cannot see an 11% two-day move in Brent, because none of it had happened when the data was collected. The oil shock that matters lands in the July and August prints. Read core. That is the number Waller told you he is watching, and a hot core is the one that drags the hike into July.
Multi-Timeframe Read for the EUR/USD Forecast
On the daily the structure has flipped. The euro spent the back end of June and early July grinding along the 1.1400 handle as a base, and Monday’s dollar surge took that base out on the close. Losing a defended range floor with the daily closing beneath it is not a wick; it is a structural shift. 1.1400 is now a ceiling, not a floor, and until it is reclaimed and held the daily bias sits with the sellers.
On the H4 the picture is a euro trying to base, but basing well beneath the level it needs. Price has stabilised in the 1.1385 to 1.1395 band overnight, which is the first small shelf below the broken 1.1400 range. That shelf sits above the deeper 1.1370 marker but has no defended-low history to lean on; it is a pause, not a floor. Above, the first meaningful test is 1.1400 itself, and only a clean reclaim there reopens 1.1450 as the next cap. On the intraday tape the euro is drifting rather than bidding, a plus 0.07% print on the day that reads far more like consolidation than reversal. The desk reads that as the market waiting for the print, not fading it in advance.
The MACRO MASTERY desk covers CPI live as the print lands, and the reaction function on EUR/USD specifically, because the FX response to the print is usually a two-move sequence: the immediate spike on the headline, then the fifteen-minute revert once the core detail is digested.
Scenario Map for the EUR/USD Forecast Into CPI
Bull case (a soft core prints alongside a soft headline). In this scenario the market gets exactly the print consensus expects, and then some, with core running plus 0.1% or lower. The tape tends to fade the July hike quickly under those conditions, the dollar backs off, and the euro tends to drift back toward the 1.1400 range base as the first magnet. Reclaiming 1.1400 and holding it above through the Warsh testimony opens 1.1450 as the next cap, then the 1.1475 band that rejected the euro last week. The key caveat: crude is rebuilding the inflation trade in real time, so any relief bounce is fighting a live tape. A soft print does not kill the story, it delays it.
Bear case (a hot core confirms the Waller trigger). In this scenario core prints plus 0.3% or higher on the month, or the annual core ticks up from 2.9%, and Warsh’s testimony ninety minutes later refuses to lean against the hike pricing. The July hike odds tend to compress toward and through 60%, US yields extend, and the euro tends to drift toward 1.1370 as the first objective, then 1.1300 as the deeper one if the tape accelerates. The one-year low the euro opened near this morning becomes the structural line the market is trading against. Waller has told the market what he needs to see; a hot core is that number.
What Would Invalidate the EUR/USD Forecast Read
WHAT WOULD FORCE A REASSESSMENT
A clean daily close back above 1.1400 with core CPI printing at or below plus 0.1% on the month would invalidate the terms-of-trade damage read and put the range back in play. Equally, an unwind of the Hormuz toll or a Warsh testimony that explicitly leans against the July hike would remove the rate leg supporting the dollar. Conversely, a hot core (plus 0.3% or higher) with the DXY breaking through 101.50 would confirm the break rather than invalidate it, pulling the map straight down toward 1.1300.
The Cross-Asset Frame Around the EUR/USD Forecast
Cable at 1.3359 is sitting exactly on the 1.3357 support, which is the tape of a currency waiting to be told which way to go. Gold is up 0.55% at 4,023.74, basing on the 4,000 handle after losing the 4,050 cap on Monday, which is the classic behaviour of the safe-haven bid after a rate-driven sell-off: pause, then rebuild. Brent at 84.72 and WTI at 79.57 are the engine, and as long as they stay bid the dollar’s yield support does not fade. This is the sentiment regime honestly stated: an oil-led inflation impulse, with the dollar firm and yields at the highs, core then Warsh’s tone deciding whether it extends or stalls. For the broader dollar view, our US dollar outlook maps the fuller path, and the framework for trading days like this one sits in how to trade CPI.
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Final Takeaway on the EUR/USD Forecast
The base has gone, and the burden of proof has moved onto the euro’s buyers. 1.1400 is now a ceiling until reclaimed, the map beneath runs to 1.1370 then 1.1300, and the number that decides the next leg is not the CPI headline (structurally blind to the oil shock) but core, at 2.9% and sticky, which is the print Waller has publicly told the market he is watching.
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EUR/USD Forecast FAQ
Where is EUR/USD trading on 14 July 2026?
EUR/USD opened at 1.1390 on 14 July 2026, plus 0.07% on the session but sitting near a one-year low after Monday’s dollar surge broke the 1.1400 range base. The DXY is holding 101.20 with the 101.02 cap flipped to support, confirming the dollar’s ground. Prices verified via TwelveData, Yahoo Finance and TradingEconomics at 08:05 BST.
Why has EUR/USD broken 1.1400?
The break reflects a terms-of-trade split. Europe imports its energy and Brent is up roughly 11% in two sessions on the Iran naval blockade and the new 20% Hormuz cargo toll. That same oil impulse is being priced as US inflation, dragging a July Fed hike to about 43% on CME FedWatch and pushing the US 10-year to 4.61%. The euro carries the damage, the dollar takes the yield.
What is the Fed doing on 29 July 2026?
CME FedWatch prices the 29 July FOMC decision at 43.3% for a 25bp hike and 56.7% for no change, with zero priced for a cut. Kalshi has the hike at 36%, up from under 10% earlier in the month. Fed funds sit at 3.50 to 3.75%. Governor Waller has published the trigger: another hot core inflation reading and the FOMC will need to consider tightening in the near term.
Should traders focus on headline or core CPI today?
Core. The June CPI headline is expected at minus 0.1% on the month, cutting the annual to about 3.9%, but that number is mechanically an energy base effect from a June when US pump prices fell about 10%. June CPI measures June and cannot see the blockade, the toll or the crude spike. Core, expected at plus 0.2% with 2.9% annual, is what Governor Waller has publicly stated he is watching.
What levels matter for EUR/USD this session?
Above 1.1390, resistance runs 1.1400 (the broken range base, now a cap), then 1.1450 where Friday’s rally stalled, then 1.1475 which rejected the euro last week. Below, the map runs 1.1370 as the first support, 1.1300 as the deeper objective if a hot core confirms the July hike trade, and the one-year low the pair opened near this morning as the structural line.
What is Chair Warsh’s role in today’s tape?
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivers his debut semiannual testimony to the House Financial Services Committee at 15:00 BST, ninety minutes after the CPI print. He cannot dodge the number. Whether he leans against the roughly 43% July hike pricing or refuses to push back will decide whether the dollar strength extends into the New York afternoon or stalls, particularly against the euro after the 1.1400 break.
How does the Hormuz situation affect EUR/USD?
The Strait of Hormuz carries about 20% of the world’s traded oil and gas. The new US 20% cargo toll turns a fear premium into a pass-through cost, and costs get transmitted to inflation. That inflates US yields (supporting the dollar) while raising the euro area’s import bill (weakening the euro). It is the same shock, but the currency pair sits on the wrong side of the split, which is why 1.1400 has broken.
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