AUD/USD Price Analysis: Remains on the defensive around 0.6530

AUD/USD attracts some selling pressure near 0.6530, losing 0.65% for the day.
The pair holds below the 50- and 100-hour EMAs on the four-hour chart.
The initial support level is seen at 0.6525; 0.6560 acts as an immediate resistance level.

Lallalit Srijandorn FXStreet

The AUD/USD pair remains under pressure and trades on a defensive note around the 0.6530 mark heading into the early European session on Tuesday. The prevalent US Dollar buying bias following the hawkish comment from Atlanta Federal Reserve (Fed) Governor Michelle Bowman supports the US Dollar and exerts pressure on AUD/USD. The major pair currently trades around 0.6531, losing 0.65% for the day.

Furthermore, the mixed economic reading from Australia and China joins the headline about geopolitical tension between Japan and China, exerts pressure on the China-proxy Australian Dollar (AUD), and caps the upside in the AUD/USD pair.

From a technical perspective, AUD/USD holds below the 50- and 100-hour Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) on the four-hour chart, which means further downside looks favourable for the time being.

That said, any intraday pullback below 0.6525 (the lower limit of the Bollinger Band) would expose the next contention level in the 0.6490 area (Low of May 26). Further south, the next stop of the AUD/USD is located at 0.6460 (Low of May 31) and finally at 0.6400 (the confluence of a psychological round figure and the low of Nov 2022).

Looking at the upside, some follow-through buying towards the upper boundary of the Bollinger Band around 0.6560 will see a rally to the next barrier at the 0.6600–0.6610 zone. The mentioned level highlights the confluence of a psychological round figure and a 50-hour EMA. Following that, AUD/USD has room to test the additional upside filter at 0.6655 (the 100-hour EMA) en route to 0.6700 (High of July 31, round figure).

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) stands below 50, challenging the pair’s immediate downside for the time being.

AUD/USD four-hour chart

AUD/USD

Overview
Today last price	0.653
Today Daily Change	-0.0044
Today Daily Change %	-0.67
Today daily open	0.6574

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.6716
Daily SMA50	0.6702
Daily SMA100	0.6688
Daily SMA200	0.6734

Levels
Previous Daily High	0.6593
Previous Daily Low	0.6555
Previous Weekly High	0.674
Previous Weekly Low	0.6514
Previous Monthly High	0.6895
Previous Monthly Low	0.6599
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.6579
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.657
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.6555
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.6536
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.6517
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.6593
Daily Pivot Point R2	0.6612
Daily Pivot Point R3	0.663

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Lallalit Srijandorn

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Lallalit Srijandorn is a Parisian at heart. She has lived in France since 2019 and now becomes a digital entrepreneur based in Paris and Bangkok.

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