AUD/USD: Bid on Oil Draws Ahead of FOMC Minutes
AUD/USD is currently on the bid as we head in towards the FOMC today.
AUD/USD
has rallied from a low of 0.7510 and has penetrated the 0.76 handle.
This is a move that commenced in yesterday's start of business in the
U.S. shift and completed today with demand coming in at roughly the same
time as yesterday's major support and correction to the 0.7722
downtrend.
Notably, for today, the move comes around the
positive outcome for oil traders with inventory draws in both
yesterday's API and today's EIA, sending oil on an extension of
yesterday's rally to meet the 200 sma on the 1hr at $37.38 WTI.
Meanwhile,
overnight, the Reserve Bank of Australia's deputy governor was out on
the wires overnight suggesting that a wide range of info points to low
inflation for some time.
AUD/USD levels
Karen
Jone's, chief analyst at Commerzbank explained that AUD/USD has started
to erode the accelerated uptrend at 0.7610. "This adds weight to the
idea of a correction lower taking hold near term. As we highlighted last
week, the recent high of 0.7722 had been accompanied by a divergence of
the daily RSI." To the downside, she added, "Attention has reverted to
support, namely 0.7477, last week's low, and 0.7416 (16th March low).
The October and November highs lie at 0.7384/81."
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