AUD/USD climbs further beyond 0.6700 mark, one-week high amid upbeat market mood – by hareshmenghani AUDUSD RiskAppetite Fed RBA Currencies
n session. The momentum lifts spot prices to a one-week high, around the 0.6820 region in the last hour, though any meaningful upside still seems elusive.
The upbeat market mood - as depicted by the ongoing rally in the global equity markets - prompts some selling around the safe-haven and turns out to be a key factor lending support to the AUD/USD pair. Against the backdrop of easing fears of a widespread banking crisis, hopes for a strong economic recovery in China boost investors' appetite for riskier assets and benefit the China-proxy Australian Dollar.
That said, worsening US-China relations, along with the prospect of an imminent pause in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s rate hikes, might hold back bulls from placing aggressive bets around the AUD/USD pair. The markets have been scaling back their bets for any further policy tightening by the RBA amid signs that inflation had peaked and that economic growth was cooling.
Furthermore, the RBA recently warned that the path to a soft landing for the Australian economy remained a narrow one. Apart from this, speculations that the Federal Reserve will move back to its inflation-fighting interest rate hikes could revive the USD demand and further contribute to capping the upside for the AUD/USD pair.
Market participants now look to the US economic docket, featuring the release of the final Q4 GDP print and the usual Weekly Initial Jobless Claims later during the early North American session. This, along with the broader risk sentiment, will influence the USD price dynamics and provide some impetus to the AUD/USD pair. The focus, however, will remain glued to the Fed's preferred inflation gauge - the Core PCE Price Index - due on Friday.
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