AUD/USD bulls holding the fort above fresh daily lows By ross_burland AUDUSD RBA CentralBanks Fed Currencies
managed to overcome the doom and gloom by midday US session, picking itself up off the floor and correcting from fresh daily lows. indexes bounced back late in the day and mostly rose on Thursday as investors snapped up beaten-down shares. Helping to boost the S&P 500, Pfizer Inc rallied 4.
Meanwhile, the US dollar climbed to its highest in nearly two years and the US Treasury 10-year yield touched a three-year high following hawkish signals from the Federal Reserve. In Asia, the greenback has extended those highs. DXY, hit a fresh 99.903 cycle high, the highest since late May 2020. Underpinning the greenback, the 2 year-10 year spread widened also due to the Fed's plans to reduce its balance sheet. The yield on 10-year Treasury notes was higher by 3.8 basis points to 2.647% while the 2-year note yield was losing 4.5 basis points at 2.457%, leaving the 2-10 spread at 18.72 basis points by the close of play on Wall Street.
Domestically, Australia’s Trade Surplus narrowed to AUD7.5bn in February, with the surplus hurt by a huge beat in imports due to the higher price ofOn Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia's Financial Stability Review was released:
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