Category: Australian dollar

Financial Market Outlook for October 3-7

The recent recovery of oil prices following the possible deal by OPEC has also helped pushed up the risk currencies including the loonie and the Aussie. But this week the market’s attention will move back to the U.S. and the…

Financial Market Preview for August 17-21

The recent decision of China to allow its currency to slightly devalue has caused a sharp rise in volatility mainly in the foreign exchange market. Now that the talks of additional devaluation has subsided, the focus in the financial markets…

Financial Market Preview for July 6-10

The recent NFP report wasn’t far off the market estimates as 223K jobs were added back in June, albeit the overall it wasn’t too impressive with lower participation rate and no gain in wages. But for this week the main…

Commodity Currencies, Oil Hedges and more – MM #51

Commodity currencies offer opportunities and we talk you through them. Not unrelated to the first topic, we run through the mechanisms of oil and top it off with the upcoming events. You are welcome to listen, subscribe and provide feedback. Commodity…

Taking Tips from Yellen and Lots More – #49

Are stock markets facing a major sell-off? We analyze Yellen’s important words in a wide context, talk about the next moves for the Aussie and the C$ and preview next week’s interesting events. You are welcome to listen, subscribe and provide feedback. Yellen:…

RBA’s Rate Cut and the Australian economy

The country down under is back on the news after the Reserve Bank of Australia decided to cut its cash rate by 0.25 percentage points. So now the RBA’s cash rate is set at 2.25% — its lowest level in…