AUDNZD: Technical Review of the Week

According to preliminary readings, ANZ’s business confidence fell from -13.4 to -18.1 in November. The outlook for its own activity fell from 21.7 to 15.6. Export intentions fell from 8.6…

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Aussie Trade Balance surplus a positive for AUD

Australia Trade Balance for September arrived A$12.243b vs the estimated A$12.375b and vs the prior a$15.077b). – Australia exports (m/m) Sep -6% (est

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Australian retail sales, excluding inflation, for Q3 -4.4% q/q

Australian retail sales, excluding inflation, for the three months July to September are (slightly) not as bad as expected at -4.4% q/q Sales were hit by lockdowns impacting around half…

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Commsec Trading Tutorial For Beginners: Trading shares in Australia with popular trading platform.

Great beginners guide to trading shares in Australia using Commsec. I initially recorded this video in 2018 for my students and thought it would be a great YouTube resource for…

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Busy week of central bank meetings and data

Overnight Headlines *US futures in the green, closed at another record high Friday *USD rebounds strongly after solid PCE data *Japanese stocks jump after ruling LDP party secures election victory…

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Australia data, Housing finance for September: Value of home loans -1.4% (expected -2%)

Home lending for September

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Australia Retail Sales for September  +1.3% m/m (expected 0.2%)

Australia Retail Sales for September +1.3% m/m, beating the central estimate Recovering after three down months in succession.  Australia’s largest population state of NSW began emerging from lockdown in the…

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Q3 Australian export & import prices both much higher than expected

 Australia terms of trade data for Q3

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Bumper US earnings not lifting Asian markets

Overnight Headlines *US stocks post another record high on earnings optimism *USD edges higher, best gains versus EUR and JPY *Australia core inflation accelerates back inside RBA target *Alphabet and…

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Breaking: Aussie CPI Q3 trimmed mean hotter, AUD rallies

Australia’s third-quarter Consumer Price Index has been released. AUD/USD has spiked on hotter trimmed mean data. More to come… There was more unce

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