20 Jan 2015
NZD/USD making session lows ahead of China GDP
FXStreet (Bali) - NZD/USD is trading heavy in early Asia, with an early uptick worth over 10 pips to session highs of 0.7785, courtesy of an upbeat NZ business confidence headline, now fully erased.
The Q4 NZIER business confidence report out of New Zealand, defined by Mark Smith, Senior Economist at ANZ, as 'a solid set of readings' for the, has nevertheless been eclipsed by selling pressure on the AUD/USD, resulting on the Kiwi making lows for the session around 0.7756.
Technically, Jim Langlands, Founder at FXCharts, notes: "Points to watch, on the downside, are at the daily /Kijun at 0.7750, below which would head back to 0.7700 and possibly 0.7680. On the topside, the daily Tenkan is now at 0.7790, with further sellers likely to arrive at 0.7800/20. Above 0.7820 would break the top of the daily cloud and would look to retest Friday’s 0.7855 high." That being said, Jim sees recent NZD price action as "pretty choppy", concluding that "I have no real bias in either direction but would use something like 0.7745/0.7800 as a guide."
The Q4 NZIER business confidence report out of New Zealand, defined by Mark Smith, Senior Economist at ANZ, as 'a solid set of readings' for the, has nevertheless been eclipsed by selling pressure on the AUD/USD, resulting on the Kiwi making lows for the session around 0.7756.
Technically, Jim Langlands, Founder at FXCharts, notes: "Points to watch, on the downside, are at the daily /Kijun at 0.7750, below which would head back to 0.7700 and possibly 0.7680. On the topside, the daily Tenkan is now at 0.7790, with further sellers likely to arrive at 0.7800/20. Above 0.7820 would break the top of the daily cloud and would look to retest Friday’s 0.7855 high." That being said, Jim sees recent NZD price action as "pretty choppy", concluding that "I have no real bias in either direction but would use something like 0.7745/0.7800 as a guide."