Australian Dollar

Asian share markets continue to fall across the region, save locally with the poor lead from Wall Street and rising concerns over COVID in Europe with Chinese shares leading the way again.

More lockdowns across Europe and less risk taking saw Wall Street fall overnight with tech stocks leading the way again as the USD firmed against everything with Pound Sterling and Euro making new weekly lows although Yen remained firm.

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Asian share markets have ignored the good lead from Wall Street overnight and have continued their very mixed start to the trading week with Chinese equities selling off fast in the wake of the US/Allied sanctions, while Japanese and local markets tread water.

The USD retreated overnight slightly, helping risk currencies like the Australian dollar as the bond market settled with 10 year Treasury yields pulling back to the 1.70% level.

DXY faded its opening gap yesterday as markets ran out of inflation news to trade upon.

Asian share markets are having a very mixed start to the week in response to an equally mixed mood on Wall Street on Friday night with the fallout from the run in the Turkish Lira following the weekend sacking of the central bank governor has seen many risk currencies gap lower against USD.

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Wall Street was again all over the place on Friday night with tech stocks rebounding after the NASDAQ fell over 3% on Thursday while the rest of the risk complex fell following the moves in Asian and European equities.

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The Australian dollar was soft again Friday night as DXY rallied.

Asian share markets are finishing the week in selloff mode in response to the falls in tech stocks on Wall Street overnight and the continued uptrend in sovereign bond yields.

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Tech stocks took a terrific pounding overnight with the NASDAQ falling over 3%, dragging the rest of the risk complex down with it as the bond market continues its implosion post the FOMC meeting.

The Australian dollar was hammered last night as the fallout from the Fed meeting continued.

Asian share markets are largely trending higher in response to the surge on Wall Street overnight, however local markets have fallen back on a white hot unemployment print that has sent the Aussie dollar higher.

Last night saw the Federal Reserve FOMC meeting leaving policy settings unchanged and very accomodative with the USD selling off sharply against the major currency pairs as a result while Wall Street found some lost confidence later in the session.

The Australian dollar took off last night after the FOMC meeting concluded with a dovish statement.

Asian share markets are back tracking from their previous bullish run in response to the very mixed lead from Wall Street overnight as the bond market continues to signal higher yields ahead.

Wall Street was very quiet and risk averse overnight while European bourses continued the bullish trend from the Asian session as US traders await tomorrow’s FOMC meeting.

Slowly but surely my base case that the US dollar weakness that has dominated markets for the past six months is over and a new upturn has begun is spreading into mainstream forex commentary.

Asian share markets are getting more bullish after their lacklustre start to the trading week yesterday with risk expectations rising on stimulus hopes from the US and probable much higher Treasury yields.

The Australian dollar fell again last night despite a general bid for risk as DXY lifted.

Share markets are have a tepid start to the trading week, although a late surge on Wall Street this morning could provide a bit more fire for Asian equities to get moving on the open.