AUD/USD surrenders gains as USD Index rebounds despite downbeat US NFP report

AUD/USD has capitulated gains generated after the release of weaker-than-expected US NFP data.
S&P500 is expected to open on a subdued note as investors are cautious ahead of second-quarter result season.
The Australian Dollar could show a decent bounce back as investors are hoping for an interest rate hike by the RBA in August.

Sagar Dua FXStreet

The AUD/USD pair has surrendered gains generated after the release of the bleak United States Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) report. The Aussie asset has dropped to near 0.6620 after retreating from 0.6660 as the US Dollar Index (DXY) has found immediate support near 102.60.

S&P500 is expected to open on a subdued note as investors are cautious ahead of second-quarter result season. Aggressively restrictive monetary policy by the Federal Reserve (Fed) and tight credit conditions might have impacted the profitability of corporate.

The USD Index is expected to remain heavily volatile as investors would start assessing the impact of the NFP data on the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) interest rate outlook. As per the US NFP report, the labor market was flooded with fresh additions of 209K payrolls against the consensus of 225K and the former release of 306K.

The Unemployment Rate has dropped to 3.6% as expected by the market participants. Apart from the Employment numbers, the economic catalyst that is under observation is the Average Hourly Earnings data. Monthly economic data maintained a pace of 0.4% and remained higher than the consensus of 0.3%. Also, Annualized Average Hourly Earnings remained at a steady pace of 4.4%.

Meanwhile, the Australian Dollar could show a decent bounce back as investors are hoping for an interest rate hike in August. A poll from Reuters showed that the RBA could push interest rates to 4.35%, Monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) has softened to 5.6% but is still far from the desired rate of 6.8%.

AUD/USD

Overview
Today last price	0.6639
Today Daily Change	0.0013
Today Daily Change %	0.20
Today daily open	0.6626

Trends
Daily SMA20	0.6729
Daily SMA50	0.6675
Daily SMA100	0.6689
Daily SMA200	0.6696

Levels
Previous Daily High	0.6688
Previous Daily Low	0.6599
Previous Weekly High	0.6721
Previous Weekly Low	0.6595
Previous Monthly High	0.69
Previous Monthly Low	0.6484
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	0.6633
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	0.6654
Daily Pivot Point S1	0.6587
Daily Pivot Point S2	0.6549
Daily Pivot Point S3	0.6498
Daily Pivot Point R1	0.6676
Daily Pivot Point R2	0.6726
Daily Pivot Point R3	0.6765

Author

Sagar Dua

FXStreet

Sagar Dua is associated with the financial markets from his college days. Along with pursuing post-graduation in Commerce in 2014, he started his markets training with chart analysis.

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