Breaking: China's Dalian port bans Australian coal imports, Aussie tumbles to 0.7100

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Reuters is out with the latest headlines, citing that China's Dalian port bans Australia coal imports.

AUD/USD stalled its minor recovery attempts near 0.7170 levels and dropped sharply to test the 0.7100 levels on the above headlines.

AUD/USD Technical Levels

AUD/USD

Overview:
    Today Last Price: 0.7101
    Today Daily change: -62 pips
    Today Daily change %: -0.87%
    Today Daily Open: 0.7163
Trends:
    Daily SMA20: 0.7154
    Daily SMA50: 0.7135
    Daily SMA100: 0.7161
    Daily SMA200: 0.7267
Levels:
    Previous Daily High: 0.7183
    Previous Daily Low: 0.7141
    Previous Weekly High: 0.7149
    Previous Weekly Low: 0.7053
    Previous Monthly High: 0.7296
    Previous Monthly Low: 0.6684
    Daily Fibonacci 38.2%: 0.7157
    Daily Fibonacci 61.8%: 0.7167
    Daily Pivot Point S1: 0.7142
    Daily Pivot Point S2: 0.712
    Daily Pivot Point S3: 0.71
    Daily Pivot Point R1: 0.7184
    Daily Pivot Point R2: 0.7204
    Daily Pivot Point R3: 0.7226

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