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The New Zealand Dollar rate is traded upward at the Forex currency market on Monday; the NZD is supported by external background, which has stabilized after collapse of last week.

Forex forecast: MACD indicator is in the positive area for the pair NZD/USD; moving along the signal line and is not giving a clear signal.  Stochastic Oscillator is going up in the neutral zone, and is giving a buy signal.

Forex recommendations: in case of breakdown at the level of 0.8270, the pair will go to 0.8250 and 0.8230. If downward breakdown does not take place, the pair will consolidate close to the current levels.

Economic situation in New Zealand has not changed fundamentally on Monday morning.
According to the released data, consumer confidence ANZ in New Zealand increased to 114.4 points in August against preliminary level of 109.4 points. CPI in New Zealand rose by 1.0% q/q (+5.3% y/y) in Q2 against the forecast of growth by 0.8% on quarterly basis. It is one more positive characteristic of the economic status in New Zealand.

Two weeks earlier, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand decided to leave interest rate at the previous level of 2.5% per annum. In the follow-up comments the RBNZ said that monetary policy tightening which has been planned for the nearest future is aimed to duly curb the rise in prices in the country. As the head of the Bank, Mr. Bollard noted:”World financial risks have begun to fade out and economic growth continues to accelerate pace; therefore, there is no sense to maintain the rate at the current low level any further.”

It is worth noting that permits for construction in New Zealand fell by 1.4% m/m in June against the forecast of +3.0%. Trade balance in New Zealand increased by NZ$230 billion in June against the forecast of NZ$400 billion. Slowdown in surplus was logical in June: volume of growth rate in imports and exports fell last month. Thus exports increased by 4.5% in Q2, to NZ$12.2 billion; imports dropped by 1%, to the level of NZ$11.8 billion. Exports to China and Australia fell sequentially: to +1.3% y/y (+24.2% y/y earlier) and 1.2% y/y (+4.7% y/y earlier) respectively.

In addition, it became known this week that unemployment rate in New Zealand amounted to 6.5% in Q2 against revised similar value in Q1. Employment rate in New Zealand has not changed on quarterly basis in Q2, showing growth by 2.0% y/y, to 2.214 million. In general the data agreed with the economists’ forecast, unemployment rate had been even below consensus forecast of 6.6%. However, this did not prevent sales of the NZD.
The NZD has a real chance to recover from previous losses while external background has stabilized.

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