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At the Forex currency market the Australian Dollar rate goes down again on Thursday, as investors do not want to take risk in advance of the news release scheduled for today. Statistics which was made public earlier does not contribute to purchases of the AUD either. 

Forex forecast: MACD indicator for the pair AUD/USD has merged with the signal line and is not giving a signal. Stochastic Oscillator has pushed away of the oversold zone and is going up, giving a buy signal.

Forex recommendations: off the market.

Feasible event scenario at Forex: in case of breakdown at the level of 1.0570, the pair will go to 1.0550 and 1.0520. If downward breakdown does not take place, the pair will consolidate at the current levels.

The Australian data which became known this morning was not very positive: unemployment rate rose to 5.3% in August versus the level of 5.1% in July. It is possible labour market is affected by the situation with exports.

Statistics released today showed that GDP in Australia rose by 1.2% q/q (+1.4% y/y) in Q2 against the forecast of growth by 1.0% on quarterly basis. The data was above expectations; however uncertainty in the external economy is very high, which prevents growth in the exchange rate. According to the governor of the RBA Mr. Glen Stevens, as long as markets are panic-stricken it is better to keep rates steady.

At the meeting last week, the Reserve Bank of Australia decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 4.75% per annum, as expected. In the follow-up comments the head of the RBA Glen Stevens noted that “medium term economic prospects look worse that it had been expected a few months earlier. Global financial markets demonstrated severe instability”. The situation with the rate seems logical amid such background.  “The RBA Committee decided that the most viable option will be to maintain current course of the monetary policy. At the next meeting the RBA will continue to carefully analyze both the prospects for economic growth and inflation in Australia, –said Stevens.

The pause in the policy of monetary tightening, maintained by the RBA, has been already going on for 9 months.

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