Forex trading headlines for Asia Tuesday 22 April 2014
- Items you may have missed over the past few days
- Australia press: Australian government not happy with RBA neutral bias on interest rates
- Conference Board February leading Index for Australia: +0.3% (prior was +0.2%)
- Japan health minister Tamura: Comments on new GPIF panel members
- Japan tax panel member says could cut corporate tax 2-3% next fiscal year, and more here.
A very quiet session in Asia today. EUR, GBP and CHF all had tiny ranges.
USD/JPY wasn’t much better, grinding to tick above 102.70 in the Tokyo morning then settling 5 or so points lower. the Nikkei opened stronger but didn’t follow through.
NZD and AUD gained a little ground, the NZD/USD finding resistance above 0.8580 again and ticking back below there a few points, while the AUD/USD found resistance on the session above 0.9350.