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Key Data Being Released Today
South Korea – Trade balance
Indonesia– CPI (2.55% YoY expected)
New Zealand – ANZ Consumer Confidence (-4.7% MoM)
US – Unemployment rate (3.7% expected)
Macro Report
The evening session was mostly focused on the commodity space overnight. Russia has changed the terms existing gas contracts in how they are to be paid which will affect European nations. Certain countries would now be required to make payments in RUB otherwise their supply will be cut.
Meanwhile the US is set to release an additional 1 million barrels per day to ease the cost of oil. This has ultimately led to oil trading much lower and closer to $100/barrel overnight. The ease in commodity prices was purely isolated to oil and metals remain at elevated levels.
Yields across the market experienced a reversion once more and all tracking higher last night and equities have sold off in kind off the back of those moves. Currency markets remained fairly muted though and traded within a narrow band as we have crossed over quarter end markets.
AUD/USD Daily Chart
DXY (USD INDEX) Daily
| Currencies | Level | Change (%) |
| AUD/USD | 0.7485 | 0.04 |
| AUD/JPY | 91.096 | 0.02 |
| AUD/CNH | 4.7564 | 0.01 |
| DXY | 98.3580 | 0.58 |
| Rates | Yield (%) | Change (%) |
| US 10 Year | 2.338 | -0.01 |
| Aus 10 year | 2.88 | -0.02 |
| Equities | Level | Change (%) |
| S&P 500 | 4530 | -1.57 |
| NASDAQ | 14838 | -1.55 |
| ASX 200 | 7500 | -0.20 |
| Commodities | Level | Change (%) |
| Iron Ore | 139.83 | -1.91 |
| Gold | 1937.43 | -0.00 |
| Brent Crude oil | 105.67 | -5.18 |