Depressed near one-week low under 0.7300 from wisepowder's blog
Depressed near one-week low under 0.7300
AUD/USD remains on the
back foot after posting the biggest losses in a month. The aussie pair
begins the key trading day, comprising the US employment data, while
keeping the recent 0.7265-82 range, currently around 0.7275, at the
start of Friday's Asian session. The pair's declines are mostly
attributed to the US dollar's sustained pullback from the multi-month
low, followed by a slump in the Wall Street benchmarks. Also weighing
the quote could be worried concerning the US stimulus and escalating
Sino-American tension.To get more news about WikiFX, you can visit wikifx official website.
After loosing +140 pips so far during September, AUD/USD questions
the bulls to reassess their bets. Though, the previous five-month rally
from the sub-0.6000 area terms the recent declines as a mere
consolidation than anything else.
Even so, market players need to be
cautious as the US Dollar Index (DXY) probes a three-week-old
resistance line following its U-turn from a 28-month low. The greenback
gauge respects the market's rush to risk-safety amid uncertainty over
the American stimulus and escalating US-China tension. Also favoring the
US currency could be the Fed policymakers' clears view of keeping the
monetary policy easy and without doubt, unlike others on the line that
still lack directions.
It's worth mentioning that the US Jobless Claims and the activity
numbers were also less harmful on Thursday. The same reversed fears of a
heavy disappointment from today's Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) after
Wednesday's ADP data slipped below marked consensus of 950K to 428K.
Elsewhere, China's Global Times (GT) recently threatened the US to
cut its American debt holdings after the Trump administration announced
extra hardships for Beijing diplomats. One should know that China is the
world's second-largest holder of US debt.
Against this backdrop,
Wall Street benchmarks witness the sea of red led by the Nasdaq's 5.0%
losses and 1.5 basis points of the US 10-year Treasury yields.
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