NZD/USD Fundamental Analysis August 16, 2012, Forecast

Posted August 15, 2012 5:44 (GMT) | By FX Empire Analyst - Barry Norman | Print | Font Size
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Analysis and Recommendation:

The NZD/USD is trading at a two week low, holding at 0.8052 after the US dollar surged late yesterday, on the release of a very positive retail sales report in the US.

On a light new day in a quiet month, traders were looking for a reason to trade. Poor showing in eurozone growth numbers offset by the positive data in the US allowed traders to move into USD.

The commodity currencies are still under the strain of poor eco data from China.

This week’s NZ Q2 retail trade survey and dairy auction have the potential to influence the NZD also. We see modest upside risks to the retail trade survey, but prices are likely to remain subdued at the dairy auction. The impact of the US drought and higher feed costs are likely to be supportive for dairy prices over the year ahead. But for the time being the market continues to digest relatively high levels of inventories from the bumper production over the past season.

The kiwi is still fighting against negative employment numbers last week

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Economic Data August 15, 2012 actual v. forecast

Date

Time

Currency

Event

Actual

Forecast

Previous

Aug. 15

01:30

AUD

Westpac Consumer Sentiment

-2.50%

3.70%

02:30

AUD

Wage Price Index (QoQ)

1.0%

0.8%

0.9%

Upcoming Economic Events that affect the AUD, NZD, JPY and USD

Date	Time	Currency	Event	Forecast	Previous
Aug 16	1:00	AUD	MI Inflation Expectations		3.3%
	12:30	USD	Building Permits	0.77M	0.76M
	12:30	USD	Unemployment Claims	365K	361K
	12:30	USD	Housing Starts	0.76M	0.76M
	14:00	USD	Philly Fed Manufacturing Index	-4.3	-12.9
	22:45	NZD	PPI Input q/q		0.3%
Aug 17	13:55	USD	Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment	72.5	72.3

Government Bond Auctions

Date Time Country

Aug 16 09:30 UK

Aug 16 15:00 US

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