The Australian Dollar (AUD) received a minor lift yesterday after jobs data came in mixed. The Aussie pushed up to 0.6740 from 0.6720 with unemployment publishing at 4.1% as expected. However, the number of employed people in June rose 50k keeping a lid on more upside. Also of note is recent Chinese data and falling commodity prices have affected the AUD. The Fed will look to start cutting interest rates in September and again at their December meeting which will lend a hand to AUD buyers. Heading into Friday trading the pair trades down at 0.6705 having retested 0.6700 support.
The current interbank midrate is: AUDUSD 0.6693
The interbank range this week has been: AUDUSD 0.6693- 0.6787