AUD/USD dribbles back from Fed rally peak at 0.6580

AUD/USD tested into nine-day high after Fed knocked the Greenback lower.
Soft Aussie GDP limits gains as markets await another Fed outing.
US NFP Friday still looms over the horizon.

Joshua Gibson FXStreet

AUD/USD knocked into a two-week high near 0.6580 after Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell kicked the legs out from underneath the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday. Fed Chair Powell noted that the Fed doesn’t see increased risk of an economic recession in the US this year while testifying before the US Congressional House Financial Services Committee. The head of the US central bank is expected to deliver further comments on Thursday when he appears for day two of the Fed’s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report.

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Australia’s latest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) print early Wednesday capped gains for the Aussie (AUD), coming in below market expectations to print at 0.2% for the fourth quarter compared to the previous quarter’s 0.3%, which was revised slightly higher from 0.2%. Australia’s Trade Balance for February lands early Thursday at 00:30 GMT, and is expected to print at 11.5 billion after the previous month’s 10.959 billion.

China’s Trade Balance (in USD terms) is also expected early Thursday at 03:00 GMT, and is expected to drive market sentiment in the Asia market session. China’s USD-denominated Trade Balance for February is forecast to jump to $103.7 billion versus January’s $75.34 billion on mixed trade results. Chinese Imports are expected to climb 1.5% versus the previous 0.2%, while Exports growth is expected to slow to 1.9% from the previous 2.3%.

Friday’s US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) will wrap up the trading week, and markets are expecting the key jobs data to print at 200K for February compared to January’s 11-month high of 353K.

AUD/USD technical outlook

The AUD/USD climbed into a familiar technical resistance zone near 0.6580 before facing a rejection, dragging the pair back into 0.6560 and keeping the Aussie hung up in a thin chart region in the near-term.

Wednesday’s bullish candle represents one of the pair’s strongest performances since December, but the pair has run into a technical ceiling at the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) near 0.6560, and bullish momentum is set to falter back into the 0.6500 handle is sellers return to the fold.

AUD/USD hourly chart

AUD/USD daily chart

AUD/USD

Overview
Today last price	0.6562
Today Daily Change	0.0057
Today Daily Change %	0.88
Today daily open	0.6505

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.6523
Daily SMA50	0.6597
Daily SMA100	0.6564
Daily SMA200	0.6562

Levels
Previous Daily High	0.6521
Previous Daily Low	0.6478
Previous Weekly High	0.6569
Previous Weekly Low	0.6487
Previous Monthly High	0.661
Previous Monthly Low	0.6443
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.6494
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.6504
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.6482
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.6458
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.6438
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.6525
Daily Pivot Point R2	0.6545
Daily Pivot Point R3	0.6569

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Joshua Gibson

FXStreet

Joshua joins the FXStreet team as an Economics and Finance double major from Vancouver Island University with twelve years' experience as an independent trader focusing on technical analysis.

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