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A$ Off Intraday Highs, RBA’s Bullock Speaks Later

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The greenback has been driving moves in the Aussie during APAC trading today. AUDUSD rose to a high of 0.6352 earlier but has come back now to be 0.1% higher on the day at 0.6340. The USD index is down 0.1% but off its intraday low.

  • Aussie is little changed against the major crosses with AUDNZD at 1.0843 and AUDJPY 94.88. AUDEUR is up 0.1% to 0.5943 and AUDGBP +0.1% to 0.5176.
  • Equity markets are generally lower with the Nikkei down 1.3%, Hang Seng -1.3%, ASX -0.1% and CSI 300 -0.3%. S&P e-mini is slightly higher. Oil prices are 0.7% higher after falling sharply on Monday and Brent is now above $90 again. Copper is 0.3% lower and iron ore is higher at around $113.00/t.
  • Later RBA Governor Bullock speaks on “Monetary Policy in Australia: Complementarities and Trade-offs” at 1900 AEDT and Wednesday sees Q3 CPI data. In the US, preliminary October PMIs, Philly non-manufacturing Fed and Richmond Fed indices are released. Also ECB President Lagarde speaks, UK labour market data and European preliminary PMIs are out.

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