Well it looks like this week is headed in the same direction as last week with a promising start & good momentum yesterday descending into savage selling in U.S equities and some commodities overnight. The AUD and commodities were holding up nicely through the Asian session yesterday with our local equities index even managing to post solid gains of about 1%, but that all ceased pretty quickly when Trump started talking further tariffs on China – this accompanied by weaker growth in tech stocks saw U.S equities lose as much as 1.6% (led by the Nasdaq…again); Europe fared much better with green across the board.
So where does this leave the AUD? Unfortunately its lower today and lower against all the majors. Unless things turn around quickly we could see the wholesale AUD/USD rate starting with a 6 at some point this week. Local building approvals are out at 11.30am but I don’t expect this to have any impact on the Aussie dollar as we are really taking our cues right now from geopolitical issues and commodity prices.
AUD EXCHANGE RATES:
AUD/USD – 0.7028
AUD/GBP – 0.5483
AUD/EUR – 0.6173
AUD/NZD – 1.0785
AUD/JPY – 79.003
USD/BTC – $6,215
OTHER MARKETS:
All Ords (XAO) – 5,813
Gold – A$1,742/oz
Silver – A$20.50/oz
WTI – US$66.74/barrel
DATA RELEASES TODAY:
AUD – Building Approvals m/m at 11.30am
USD – CB Consumer Confidence at 1.00am
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Patrick Downes
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