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Risk Off Continues To Bolster Greenback, AUDUSD Down 2.5%

FOREX
  • The widespread pressure across equity markets continues to permeate through to G10 FX, with the greenback seeing a strong recovery over the course of the US session. The USD index now resides up 0.9% on the day as hawkish central bank rhetoric continues to dampen risk sentiment.
  • Despite a hawkish ECB president Lagarde, EURUSD briefly made new session lows below 1.0600, after reaching fresh six-month highs during the press conference at 1,0735.
  • Losses are broad based across G10, however, underperformance for commodities and in particular metals is significantly weighing on AUD, which has plummeted over 2.5%.
  • Despite overall bullish trend conditions the pair has broken initial support at 0.6731, the 20-day EMA and is now approaching the key support level of 0.6657, the 50-day EMA. A clear break of this average would highlight a possible reversal and signal scope for a deeper retracement.

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