And how. The Aussie flew Friday night to new closing highs against USD, breaking out of its ascending triangle pattern and pointing to more ahead:
The primary driver was weak US inflation (chart from Calculated Risk):
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the median Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% (1.1% annualized rate) in June. The 16% trimmed-mean Consumer Price Index also rose 0.1% (0.9% annualized rate) during the month. The median CPI and 16% trimmed-mean CPI are measures of core inflation calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland based on data released in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) monthly CPI report.