Key Data Being Released Today.
Thursday
- USD Crude oil inventories: prev -1.5M
- NZD GDP q/q: Exp 1.2%
- AUD Employment change: Exp -80.0K
- AUD Unemployment rate: Exp 4.9%
- EUR President Lagarde Speaks
- USD August Core retail sales m/m: -0.2%
- USD August retail sales m/m: exp. -0.8%
- USD Philly Fed Manufacturing Index: exp. 18.9
- USD unemployment rate: exp. 316K
The Aussie Dollar
Today the market will be paying close attention to the Australian employment figures that will be coming-out at 11:30am AEST. Particular attention will be given to our participation rate, and the market will also focus and the split of full time or parttime jobs added/lost.
The US Retail Sales and the Initial Jobless Claims report tonight precedes the FOMC monetary policy meeting, to be held on September 21-22. A good reading could reignite the possibilities of a bond tapering announcement, by next week. If the consumer conditions have worsened, investors could expect a delay until the November meeting.
Looking at the market technically, traders will be keeping a close eye on the 50 Day Moving Average (Red line) as a key level of resistance if the Australian Employment is positive.
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AUD/USD Daily Chart
Major Global Markets
- Stocks
- S&P 500 closed at 4480
- NASDAQ closed at 15525
- ASX 200 closed at 7417
- Currencies
- AUD/JPY – At the time of writing this report trades at 80.30
- AUD/CNH – At the time of writing this report trades at 4.7150
- DXY (US Dollar Index) – At the time of writing this report trades 92.484
- AUD/EUR – At the time of writing this report trades 0.6210
- Bonds
- US 10-year Bonds remains flat at 1.306%
- Commodities
- Iron Ore – Trading at USD/T 124.16
- Gold – trading at USD/OZ 1794
- Brent Crude Oil – Trading at USD/Bbl 75.26