AUD/USD sticks to Aussie jobs data-led weakness to 2-week lows, just below 0.6800 handle

A hawkish rate cut by the Fed triggered some corrective slide on Wednesday.
The downfall accelerated further following the release of the Aussie jobs report.

Haresh Menghani FXStreet

The AUD/USD pair maintained its heavily offered tone through the early European session on Thursday and is currently placed near the lower end of its daily trading range, or over two-week lows.

After repeatedly failing ahead of the 0.6900 handle, the pair on came under some fresh selling pressure on Wednesday after the latest FOMC policy statement suggested that the US central bank is already done with its mid-cycle adjustments.

The Fed did deliver a 25 bps rate cut but the so-called dot-plot showed that the median projections of federal funds rate is expected to remain at present levels through the end of 2020 and provided a goodish intraday lift to the US Dollar.

Disappointing Aussie jobs data adds to the post-FOMC downfall

The downfall accelerated further on Thursday following the release of rather unimpressive Aussie jobs data, which showed that the unemployment rate ticked higher to 5.3% in August as compared to the previous month's reading of 5.2%.

Meanwhile, the headline data showed that the number of employed people increased by 34.7K in August but the fact that full-time employment dropped to -15.5K disappointing investors and exerted some additional pressure on the major.

The pair dropped to its lowest level since September 4, albeit now seems to have found some support near the 0.6780-75 horizontal resistance breakpoint amid the lack of any follow-through buying interest around the greenback.

Moving ahead, Thursday's US economic docket - featuring the release of initial weekly jobless claims and Philly Fed Manufacturing Index - will now be looked upon for some short-term trading opportunities.

Technical levels to watch

AUD/USD

Overview
Today last price	0.6788
Today Daily Change	-0.0040
Today Daily Change %	-0.59
Today daily open	0.6828

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.6803
Daily SMA50	0.6847
Daily SMA100	0.6898
Daily SMA200	0.7008

Levels
Previous Daily High	0.687
Previous Daily Low	0.6812
Previous Weekly High	0.6895
Previous Weekly Low	0.6837
Previous Monthly High	0.6869
Previous Monthly Low	0.6676
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.6834
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.6848
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.6803
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.6779
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.6745
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.6861
Daily Pivot Point R2	0.6895
Daily Pivot Point R3	0.6919

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Haresh Menghani

FXStreet

Haresh Menghani is a detail-oriented professional with 10+ years of extensive experience in analysing the global financial markets.

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