Forex news for Asia trading Friday 20 March 2015
- New Zealand - ANZ Job advertisements for February: +0.7% (prior -1.1%)
- CBA - 5 reasons the AUD will keep falling
- More on the Greece talks from earlier ... EU chiefs warn time is running out
- Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kuroda: Japan CPI likely to reach 2% in or around FY2015
- More from BOJ Governor Kuroda
- Some Friday fun! This is laugh-out-loud funny
- More again from RBA's Stevens: AUD adjustment probably not finished
- Post speech comments from RBA's Stevens: Australia does not have a budget crisis
- RBA head Stevens: Australian firms and households getting less optimistic
- New Zealand - Credit card spending for February: +5.8% y/y (prior was +6.2%)
- Australia press: China to hold back global growth, says PIMCO
- MNI China business sentiment for March: 52.2 (52.8 prior)
- Germany's Merkel: Greek measures must be accelerated
- China NDRC asks coal producers to restrict output
- Here's how one bank consistently (EVERY DAY!) sold currencies at the top, bought the low
- ANZ consumer confidence index for March: +0.5% m/m (prior was -3.8%)
- Minutes from the February meeting of the Bank of Japan
- Australia news - Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser had died
- Chicago Fed's Evans research paper: A case for rates to remain at zero until 2016
- Japanese government to raise is economic assessment report the Nikkei
The USD lost ground in Asia today. the moves were not large, just a general slip for the dollar.
EUR/USD tested towards 1.07, cable towards 1.4775.
NZD/USD broke above US timezone highs, topping out today just a tic or so above 0.7451 before giving back 25-odd points (its on its low for the pullback as I write).
AUD/USD gained, too, though not quite as strongly a the Kiwi. There was plenty from Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Stevens, both from a prepared text and responses to a question session but little response from the AUD to him.
Oil ends almost flat on the session, Gold too. Asian equities were flat to slightly lower on the session (as of writing)
