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FOREX: It was a fairly quiet affair during the Asia-Pacific session, the dollar

was mostly unchanged against its peers, but with one small exception.

Aussie-dollar was a mild out-performer, climbing from $0.7947 to $0.7996

underpinned by better-than-expected local data, July building approvals came in

-1.7% m/m against -5.0% m/m expected, also, Q2 construction work was solid,

coming in at +9.3% q/q against MNI's median of +1.0% q/q. Aussie was last at

$0.7990. Dollar-yen trekked higher from Y109.55 to Y109.92, the move was

supported by demand into today's Tokyo-fix. Dollar-yen was last at Y109.72 and

almost unchanged from this morning's open. Kiwi dropped from $0.7265 to $0.7232

following RBNZ's Wheeler, 'a lower kiwi is needed' comment. Kiwi recovered quite

quickly and was last at $0.7263. Meanwhile, Euro-dollar currently trades at

$1.1976 and Cable at $1.2927, after trading in respective ranges of $1.1963 to

$1.1979 and $1.2918 to $1.2929.