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At the Forex currency Swiss Franc rate still remains near local highs on Tuesday despite SNB's firm stance against the currency exchange rate.

Forex forecast: MACD indicator for the pair USD/CHF has broken through the signal line from top to bottom and is now in the negative area, giving a sell signal. Stochastic Oscillator remains in the oversold zone and is giving a similar signal.

Forex recommendations: in case of breakdown at 0.9140, USD/CHF will go to ? 0.9130 and 0.9110.

Swiss Franc growth shall not leave SNB unfazed; yesterday, for example, investors into the pair EUR/SHF had come close to important level of 1.20, which is now maximum permissible in the pair. Later on the pair moved away from important level; however a chance of retest is still preserved.

SNB did not give any comments yet.

Last week, representative of SNB Mr. Dantin said that, in perspective lowering of Franc rate is possible because measures to restrict its growth are going to be introduced. He once again outlined well-known positions of SNB about possibility of unlimited purchases of foreign currency in order to keep Franc in permissible price limits.

Swiss Minister of Economic affairs noted on Friday, that second half of this year is going to be better than the first one, Swiss economy is stable enough to survive mild recession. Naturally, it will affect the economic growth rate in the country: slow growth rate of GDP is expected in 2012. The politician also stressed that SNB has high credit worthiness.

We would remind that the head of Swiss National Bank Phillip Hildebrand resigned at the beginning of January. The name of successor is still unknown and it is also not clear if a new governor of the Bank will adhere to the same policy as his colleague in monetary issues. Swiss government noted that search for the candidate for SNB governor will take several months.

Earlier, Swiss government indicated intention to revise policy of supervision over SNB activity. A week ago Swiss authorities said that government does not have instruments for direct influence on SNB. Representatives of the Finance Ministry of the country stated that politicians have no ground to cast doubts on Bank's strategies; however the issue with Hildebrand requires special consideration. Ministry also stressed that new head of SNB will be appointed only after additional discussion. It became known earlier that index of leading indicators KOF fell by 17% in January against the forecast of decline of 10%. This is the consequence of expensive currency, and this only increases possibility of another currency intervention against CHF .In January, investors' economic expectations index ZEW was at the level of -50.1 points against -72 points a month earlier. Trade balance in Switzerland rose by 3.0 billion francs in November against the forecast of+2.00 billion francs and previous value of +2.15 billion francs.

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