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The AUD/NZD cross holds below the 1.0800 mark during the Asian session on Tuesday. The cross edges lower following the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) interest rate decision. The Australian central bank decided to leave the interest rate unchanged on Tuesday. Traders will take more cues from the RBA press conference. AUD/NZD currently trades around 1.0770, losing 0.07% on the day.
On Tuesday, the RBA held the Official Cash Rate (OCR) steady at a 12-year high of 4.35% for the third meeting in a row after its March monetary policy meeting. The markets will focus on the fresh catalysts offered by the RBA on the timing and the scope of a policy pivot. The hawkish remarks from the central bank might lift the Australian Dollar (AUD) against the New Zealand Dollar (NZD).
On the Kiwi front, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) decided to keep the policy rate steady at 5.50% for the fifth meeting in a row in February. However, the RBNZ tones down its hawkish stance and reduces the risk of further tightening. The central bank lowered its forecast cash rate peak to 5.6% from a previous projection of 5.7%. This, in turn, exerts some selling pressure on the New Zealand Dollar (NZD) and acts as a tailwind for the AUD/NZD cross.
New Zealand’s Westpac Consumer Survey for the first quarter (Q1) will be due on Wednesday, followed by the Current Account. On Thursday, traders will closely monitor the New Zealand Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Q4 and the Australian Judo Bank PMI for March.
The AUD/NZD is caught in a near-term downside drift ahead of Tuesday’s latest showing from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), and the pair is down around seven-tenths of a percent after peaking near the 1.0700 handle last week.
The pair recently dipped into multi-month lows, testing into its lowest bids since last May and dropping into the 1.0590 region, but bullish momentum has drained out of a limited recovery that sees the pair struggling on the bearish side of a descending 200-hour Simple Moving Average (SMA) dropping into 1.0650.
With the AUD/NZD struggling to establish a meaningful recovery, buyers are grasping for a rebound into the 200-day SMA near 1.0800 as daily candles continue to grind into bearish territory in rough sideways action that exposes the pair to rapid drops as the Antipodeans grapple for supremacy.
The table below shows the percentage change of Australian Dollar (AUD) against listed major currencies today. Australian Dollar was the weakest against the New Zealand Dollar.
USD | EUR | GBP | CAD | AUD | JPY | NZD | CHF | |
USD | 0.05% | 0.13% | 0.11% | -0.03% | 0.02% | -0.20% | 0.20% | |
EUR | -0.06% | 0.06% | 0.04% | -0.08% | -0.03% | -0.26% | 0.15% | |
GBP | -0.11% | -0.09% | -0.04% | -0.14% | -0.09% | -0.32% | 0.07% | |
CAD | -0.09% | -0.04% | 0.02% | -0.12% | -0.07% | -0.29% | 0.10% | |
AUD | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.16% | 0.14% | 0.05% | -0.18% | 0.23% | |
JPY | -0.01% | 0.03% | 0.13% | 0.09% | -0.05% | -0.22% | 0.18% | |
NZD | 0.20% | 0.25% | 0.33% | 0.32% | 0.18% | 0.22% | 0.40% | |
CHF | -0.21% | -0.16% | -0.07% | -0.10% | -0.24% | -0.19% | -0.41% |
The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the Euro from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the Japanese Yen, the percentage change displayed in the box will represent EUR (base)/JPY (quote).
The AUD/NZD cross rallies over 30 pips from the Asian session low, around the 1.0700 level after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced its policy decision and reverses a major part of the previous day's losses. Spot prices currently trade around the 1.0730 region, up just 0.20% for the day, though remain confined in a familiar range held over the past four days.
The Australian Dollar (AUD) strengthens across the board after the RBA decided to keep the Official Cash Rate unchanged and retained a hawkish stance, saying that the Board needs to be confident that inflation is moving sustainably towards the target range. In the accompanying policy statement, the central bank noted that inflation continued to ease in the December quarter, though remained high at 4.1%. The RBA added that services price inflation declined at a more gradual pace and remains elevated.
The RBA also published the updated economic forecasts for 2024 and 2025, which showed small downward shifts in expectations for GDP and consumer inflation. The central now sees the economy to grow by 1.8% in 2024 and the CPI at 3.2% as compared to initial expectations of 2.0% and 3.5%, respectively. The favourable inflation outlook suggested that the RBA's tightening cycle is over and that the next move would be down. This acts as a headwind for the Aussie and keeps a lid on any further gains for the AUD/NZD cross.
From a technical perspective, the recent pullback from the 1.0830-1.0835 area constitutes the formation of a bearish double-top pattern on the daily chart. Moreover, repeated failures to find acceptance above the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) favour bearish traders. This, along with the fact that oscillators on the daily chart have just started drifting in negative territory, suggests that the path of least resistance for the AUD/NZD cross is to the downside. Hence, any further move up is likely to get sold into.
That said, it will still be prudent to wait for a sustained breakdown below the 1.0700 mark before positioning for any further depreciating move. The AUD/NZD cross might then accelerate the slide towards the December 2023 swing low, around the 1.0660-1.0650 area, before dropping to the 1.0625 region and the 1.0600 round figure.
On the flip side, the 1.0740-1.075 zone, or the top end of a multi-day-old trading range, might continue to act as an immediate hurdle. A sustained strength beyond, however, might trigger a short-covering rally and allow the AUD/NZD cross to aim back to reclaim the 1.0800 mark, which now coincides with the 200-day SMA. This is followed by the 1.0830-1.0835 supply zone, which if cleared decisively might shift the bias in favour of bullish traders and pave the way for some meaningful upside in the near term.
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