AUD/USD bounces again as RBA hikes 25bps

The Australian Greenback is edging greater this morning after the Reserve Financial institution of Australia (RBA) raised rates of interest for the ninth time since Could final 12 months, rising the benchmark by 25bps to three.35% as extensively anticipated.

AUD/USD had slipped virtually 4.5% within the earlier three classes after the occasions final week, main merchants to imagine that the US economic system won’t face a recession. The Us greenback had been caught in a bearish channel for the previous 3 months because the financial information was exhibiting falling inflation and stagnant client and producer exercise, however the jobs information posted on Friday – which noticed the unemployment price falling to its lowest degree since 1969 at 3.4% – brought on merchants to reassess their beliefs about how 2023 would possibly form out to be for the US economic system. A extra resilient economic system than anticipated offers the Federal Reserve much less motive to unwind its tight financial coverage, which can assist the US greenback and US bond yields.

Focus now can be on how the Federal Reserve interprets this newest information and with Powell talking later this afternoon markets will wish to know whether or not his views on the terminal price have modified. Regardless, given how markets had been pricing in a decrease price than the central financial institution predicted in its December assembly, the stronger jobs information solely weakens their place additional, which means the market-implied price curve might need some catching as much as do, and subsequently the US greenback might nonetheless have some additional upside within the weeks to come back, that’s assuming, after all, that Powell doesn’t shock us by seeming extra dovish than anticipated, which is very unlikely at this level.

Technically, the pressure of the transfer decrease on Friday has brought on a possible reversal within the short-term development, as might be evidenced by the RSI dipping beneath 50. Thus far AUD/USD has discovered assist alongside the 50-day SMA (0.6860) and we’ve seen assist alongside this line because the starting of the 12 months so sellers would possibly discover it troublesome to interrupt decrease. Thus far, the pair stays above its 200-day SMA (0.6808) which for essentially the most a part of 2022 was limiting the strikes on the topside, so there could possibly be a proceed bullish bias so long as it holds above this degree.