There were no data releases from Australia this morning, so Aussie remained traded within a tighter range as holiday season still play's an important role in market volatility. In a quite uneventful week main market movers for Aussie were gold an iron ore prices. Gold prices still very soft, while iron ore prices fell to a five year low with decline in demand from China.
However, despite drop in industrial production and growth China added 13 million jobs this year above government's target. Elsewhere, Industrial Production in Japan fell by 0.6%, missing market expectations on 1% increase. Average Cash Earnings also declined by 1.5%, while analysts were predicting 0.5% raise. USD strengthen by 20 points against JPY after data was released.
Aussie is almost unchanged this morning currently being traded around 0.8120 level. We can expect a steadier rest of the session as there will be no data releases in the US session.
Last modified on Friday, 26 December 2014