Analysis and Recommendation: The AUD/USD is trading at 0.7145 recovering slightly from this week’s lows, but the Aussie seems unable to get a leg up with
The AUD/USD is trading at 0.7145 recovering slightly from this week’s lows, but the Aussie seems unable to get a leg up with Chinese data remaining weak and the US dollar touching new monthly highs. In its quarterly statement on monetary policy, the RBA said that the unemployment rate will stay in its recent range between 6 to 6.25 per cent, and then gradually decline.
BK Asset Management director of FX strategy Boris Schlossberg said the more interesting drivers for the currency will be US nonfarm pay rolls due out Friday night, Australian time. “If we get a strong number the market consensus will really shift towards a December rate hike, which will put further pressure on the Aussie,” he said. ( reported in Business Spectator )
The U.S. dollar edged higher against its main rivals on Thursday as investors were hopeful that a report on job growth in October, expected early Friday, would support a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in December–a boon for the greenback.
The dollar’s performance on Thursday was largely due to comments from Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen, Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer and New York Fed President William Dudley–what one analyst called “the three heavyweights” of the Fed’s rate-setting committee–made on Wednesday.
All three stressed that a rate hike at the Fed’s December policy meeting is still on the table.
Expectations for a Fed hike this year waned in September and October after Fed officials expressed concerns about slowing growth in China and other emerging-market economies, dragging the dollar down with them.
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Government Bond Auctions
Date Time Country
Nov 09 12:00 Norway Details bond auction on 11 Nov
Nov 09 15:30 Italy Announces details of BTPs/CCTeu on 12 Nov
Nov 09 N/A US Holds 3-year note auction
Nov 10 10:30 UK 0.125% 2058 I/L Gilt auction
Nov 10 N/A Holland Eur 2.0-3.0bn 0% Apr 2018 DSL
Nov 10 N/A US Holds 10-year note auction
Nov 11 10:03 Sweden Holds bond auction
Nov 11 11:15 Norway Holds bond auction
Nov 11 10:30 Germany Eur 3bn 0.25% Oct 2020 Bobl
Nov 12 10:10 Italy Auctions BTPs/CCTeus
Nov 12 10:30 UK 4.25% 2039 Gilt auction
Nov 12 N/A US Holds 30-year bond auction