NZD/USD Fundamental Analysis December 21, 2012, Forecast

Analysis and Recommendation:

The NZD/USD continues to gather momentum even after a disappointing GDP release and business confidence print this morning. New Zealand’s gross domestic product grew 0.2 percent in the three months ended Sept. 30, half the 0.4 percent pace forecast in a Reuters survey and spurred only by a pick-up in construction activity. The local economy has been showing signs of weakness through the middle of the year, with unemployment rate rising to a 13-year high 7.3 percent, and the figure cemented the view that future growth is hanging on the Canterbury reconstruction effort.

Investors continue to wait for US legislators to cast aside their partisan brinkmanship and reach a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, which will probably send the world’s biggest economy back into recession. Talks between the Democrat White House and the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives have deteriorated in the past 24 hours, according to a Bloomberg report.

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Economic Data December 20, 2012 actual v. forecast

  

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

 

Government Bond Auction

Date Time Country 

Dec 21 16:30 Italy