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Australian Dollar is riding on weak sentiments

The rippling affect of recession and economic slowdown in America has left the Australian dollar on a slippery surface. As of now the AUD (Australian dollar) in comparison to the US dollar, in terms of bidding and asking prices is 0.8800 to 0.8808.

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US Dollar is still a strong currency

The year 2008 was bad, to put it mildly, in terms of recession and economic downturn/ slowdown in the United States of America.

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Australian Dollar Pare Losses on Inflation


The Australian dollar managed to gain versus

lower-yielding currencies before a report to be released this week in the country is likely to show an advance in inflation in the last year’s last quarter, helping speculations that a series of interest rates in the country will restart.

The Aussie rebounded after losing versus most of lower-yielding currencies last week as risk aversion remained predominant in majority of trading hours. Investors in the South Pacific region are waiting an inflation report to be released on Jan 27th expecting positive numbers as forecasts suggest an advance for the country’s prices in the last quarter of 2009, which would provide grounds for a new series of interest rate hikes by Australian policy makers.

AUD/USD traded at 0.9053 as of 00:09 GMT from a previous rate 0.9034 when markets opened Sunday evening.

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Dollar Profits From Global Economic Pessimism


This Friday’s shift in market sentiment allowed the U.S. dollar to post a weekly advance versus most of the main

higher-yielding currencies, as risk aversion rose globally and traders opted by the relative safety provided by dollar-priced assets.

The dollar gained significantly versus commodity producer currencies like the Brazilian Real and the Australian dollar towards the end of this week as China’s new lending restrictions raised concerns that demand for raw materials may decline in the country, affecting exports from these countries.

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Australian Dollar Down on Chinese Risk Aversion


The Australian dollar was one of the most affected currencies today as speculations that Chinese lending requirements will slow down the global economic recovery impacted traders’ sentiment, declining appetite for

high-yielding currencies.

The Aussie and the kiwi declined today versus most of the main 16 traded currencies, after one of its main trading partners, China, is likely to reduce property loans after the government set new restrictions for lending money in the nation’s banks, fueling speculations of an economic slowdown and consequently raising risk aversion in trading markets towards the end of this week’s session.

AUD/CAD traded at 0.9502 as of 19:02 GMT from a previous rate of 0.9525 yesterday.

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Australian Dollar Rallies on Interest Rate Outlook


Once again interest rates are fueling a rally for the Aussie dollar as it happened in the second half of the last year, when the South Pacific currency ranked among the best performing options in

foreign-exchange markets.

Positive employment data published in Australia this Wednesday is helping the Aussie to rally to high levels versus most of the main traded currencies, as a declining unemployment rate, currently at 5.5 percent and much better than other key-economic regions in the world, is fueling speculations that interest rates will be once again hiked in the country next month.

AUD/USD traded at 0.9315 as of 00:11 GMT from a previous intraday rate of 0.9241.

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Australian Dollar Climbs on Unemployment Rate


The Australian dollar climbed after employment figures were published in the country with

better-than-expected numbers, adding confidence that the economic recovery in the country is accelerating its pace, spurring demand for assets in the South Pacific region.

After unemployment in Australia declined to 5.5 percent and surprised forecasts that expected an increase, the Aussie dollar gained versus most of the main traded currencies, specially lower-yielding options like the Japanese yen, impacted by the growing risk appetite in Australia.

AUD/CAD traded at 0.9579 as of 02:27 GMT from 0.9504 hours before the employment figures were published in Australia.

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Aussie Dollar Falls on New Home Loans


The Australian dollar fell sharply versus

lower-yielding currencies today as a real estate report declined optimism regarding the South Pacific economy, in a day were commodities and equities markets which have a strong correlation with the Aussie, declined.

Basically everything worked against the Australian dollar today as a report in the country showed that new home loans decreased the most in more than a year, in a day were equities dropped and demand for commodities declined, after China imposed new lending requirements for banks.

AUD/USD declined to 0.9200 as of 19:38 GMT from a previous rate of 0.9310. AUD/JPY dropped to 83.64 from 85.64.

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Yen Rallies on China’s Banking Policy


Risk aversion declined significantly today after China set a new reserves requirements for banks in the country, allowing the yen to outperform all of the 16 main traded currencies in

foreign-exchange markets, as pessimism surged.

Equities markets in Asia and globally declined today, raising demand for the yen, as China set a minimum of 16 percent of reserves that large banking corporations in the country must have, in order to avoid a credit bubble as the one that caused the global slump in late 2008.

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Canadian Dollar Near 2-Month High on Oil


The Canadian dollar returned to gain today as its chief export, the crude oil, rallied as demand for energy increases, favoring currencies with a similar profile in

foreign-exchange markets as the Australian dollar, which is a main commodity supplier for China.

The loonie, as the Canadian dollar is often referred, had the fourth day of advances in this week as the crude oil returned to trade high in commodity markets closing future contracts near $ 83 a barrel, helping the Canadian dollar to rally specially versus its U.S.

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Indicator “risk-yield” begins to decline

Now watch for the results of Caterpillar, because they can cause movement in the stock markets

Strong financial results of Apple and TI earnings triggered growth in the stock markets.

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Aussie resumes its climb against the pound, but has capped gains this morning

The aussie dollar continued its upward trend yesterday, pushing on nearly one percent against the pound following bullish words from an RBA official.

  • The Australian dollar rose as a Reserve Bank of Australia official said a move to “more normal” interest rates was appropriate, indicating that the yield gap may widen further.
  • Philip Lowe, assistant governor of the RBA, also mentioned at the conference in Sydney that it was “appropriate” to remove monetary stimulus as the economy improves boosting demand for higher-yielding assets.

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The positive news and comment from New Zealand and Australia strengthened the downtrend of the dollar

While the currency markets wavered, hesitating to jump into a train of risk on the New York session, Wall Street took the bull by the horns, and the DJIA index Breaks at 10 000 points for the first time since October 2008.

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UBS forecasts for the U.S. dollar

The dollar, which fell this year to the main 16 countries – trade partners of the United States, in the next 3 months will strengthen against the euro, Aoussa, New Zealand dollar is not as strong as analysts expected in the previous forecast.

According to the forecast UBS, the euro to the dollar amount to 1.40, the Australian dollar to 80 cents, to New Zealand dollar 65 cents.

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Strong commodity prices and doubts over the UK economy allow the aussie to gain further ground

The Australian dollar continued to push higher yesterday, advancing over a cent as sentiment towards the higher-yielding currency remained positive.

  • Commodity currencies, such as the aussie, made progress yesterday in line with stronger prices for oil and metals.

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