NZD/USD slides to sub-0.6000 levels, lowest since November amid stronger USD – by hareshmenghani NZDUSD RBNZ Fed RiskAversion Currencies
A combination of factors lifts the USD closer to over a two-month high and weighs on the pair.Thepair comes under intense selling pressure on Wednesday and maintains its heavily offered tone through the early part of the European session. The pair is currently placed just below the 0.6000 psychological mark - its lowest since November 10 - and seems vulnerable to prolonging its recent bearish trend witnessed over the past three weeks or so.
The New Zealand Dollar continues to be undermined by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's explicit signal last week that it was done with its most aggressive hiking cycle since 1999. The, on the other hand, climbs back closer to over a two-month high touched on Tuesday and turns out to be another factor exerting pressure on the NZD/USD pair for the second successive day.
Investors seem convinced that the US central bank will keep interest rates higher for longer and have been pricing in a greater chance of another 25 bps lift-off at the June FOMC meeting. The bets were lifted by the US PCE Price Index data on Friday, which showed that inflation remains sticky. Apart from this, a fresh wave of a global risk-aversion trade provides an additional boost to the safe-haven Greenback.remains fragile amid worries about slowing global economic growth.
This, along with concerns about the worsening US-China ties overshadow the optimism over raising the US debt ceiling and temper investors' appetite for riskier assets, which further contributes to driving flows away from the risk-sensitive Kiwi. Meanwhile, the ongoing slide in the US Treasury bonds yields - led by the global flight to safety - could act as a headwind for the USD.
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