AUD/USD ANALYSIS & TALKING POINTS
- Stellar Australian steadiness of trade knowledge but to translate by means of to AUD upside as international components dominate market motion.
- US labor knowledge underneath the highlight later right now.
- AUD/USD falling wedge may give bulls hope short-term.
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AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR FUNDAMENTAL BACKDROP
The Australian greenback is caught between two opposing forces with the Fed’s ‘pause’ narrative gaining traction and international recessionary fears limiting Aussie upside. Yesterday, the Fed expectedly elevated charges by 25bps with a dovish slant after Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged “we really feel like we’re shut, or possibly even there, fuddling market pricing with the implied fed funds futures now pointing to a complete of 78bps of price cuts by yr finish. That being mentioned, the banking disaster is rising with PacWest the following within the firing line.
Concerns round financial progress and a looming recession are rising which doesn’t bode nicely for the AUD. Being a commodity linked currency, any pessimism in direction of progress typically weighs on the Aussie greenback.
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Earlier this morning, Australia’s trade steadiness figures shocked to the upside hitting a surplus of A$15.27 billion in March largely pushed by iron ore and coal exports. While this can be a optimistic for the native financial system, exterior uncertainty is gripping monetary markets leaving the AUD in limbo for now. Later right now, focus will shift to the US as soon as extra and hone in on jobs knowledge forward of Friday’s Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) report to see whether or not jobless claims correlate with both the prior ADP employment change or JOLTs numbers.
ECONOMIC CALENDAR
Source: DailyFX financial calendar
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
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AUD/USD DAILY CHART
Chart ready by Warren Venketas, IG
Daily AUD/USD value motion exhibits the pair contained inside a short-term falling wedge sample (black) and will level to impending upside ought to AUD bulls break above wedge resistance. If the banking disaster will be repressed, traders might look to be extra threat looking for leaving riskier currencies just like the AUD in a positive place.
Key resistance ranges:
- 200-day MA (blue)
- 0.6700/Wedge resistance
- 50-day MA (yellow)
Key help ranges:
- 0.6620
- 0.6565/Wedge help
IG CLIENT SENTIMENT DATA: BULLISH
IGCS exhibits retail merchants are at present LONG on AUD/USD, with 68% of merchants at present holding lengthy positions. At DailyFX we sometimes take a contrarian view to crowd sentiment ensuing however due to latest modifications in lengthy and brief positioning, we arrive at a short-term bullish disposition.
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