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AUD/USD - 0.9250 selling, Aus PM take rate to 0.92

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - The AUD/USD is easing off its highs at 0.9250, area where hedge funds have been selling recently, with the pair currently visiting the 0.92 round number, which seems to provide some support.

Australian PM comments negative for the Aussie

The latest slide comes also at a time when the Australian Prime Minister Julia Guillard crossed the wires saying that a depreciation in the AUD value was good for the Australian economy.

Order board

Looking at the order board, Eamonn Sheridan, Editor at Forexlive, notes "offers at 0.9270/80 then some stops above 0.9290 but mixed with offers again 0.9300 and just above; to the downside, bids 0.9190/9205."

Flash: NZD/USD should recover when the dust settles - BNZ

Fundamentally, Stephen Toplis, Head of Research at BNZ, still believe the <a href="http://www.fxstreet.com/technical/currencies-glance/pair.aspx?id=nzd/usd">NZD/USD will be underpinned by the solid New Zealand economic outlook, suggesting a recovery in the Kiwi is likely end-2013/early-2014. For the meantime, Toplis retains the view "of a first 25bp policy rate hike in March 2014, to 2.75%, a 3.25% OCR by June 2014 and a peak of 4.50% around mid-2015."
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