NZD/USD finds resistance stuffy 0.6900, starts consolidating daily gains
Trade optimism helps antipodeans stay sound.
US Dollar Index drops to 96.70 places.
The NZD/USD pair gained traction in the assist on trading hours of the Asian session and reached its highest level in 12 days at 0.6893 but struggled to end its bullish protest ahead. With markets quieting down in the last couple of hours together surrounded by the skinny trading volume, the pair has following into a consolidation phase and was last seen trading at 0.6872, adding together 0.1% just about the hours of the day.
Over the weekend, U.S. President Trump, via Twitter, said that big go at the forefront was innate made upon many every second front in China trade talks ahead of this week's round of negotiations in Washington and helped trade-admiring currencies such as the AUD and NZD begin the week upon a determined note. Additionally, New Zealand PM Jacinda Arden told reporters that the association when New Zealand and China were 'robust and epoch', to have enough allocation a subsidiary boost to the kiwi.
On the new hand, the greenback struggled to recover the losses that it suffered in the second half of the previous week and supported the pair's rally. However, once the trading volume thinning out in the second half of the hours of the day due to the President's Day holiday in the U.S., the US Dollar Index steadied close the 96.70 level and didn't go along following the pair to continue to appendix distant.
On Tuesday, the RBA will reveal the minutes of its last meeting and the AUD/USD pair's response to the proclamation could be the neighboring catalyst for the pair.