Re: Market Update by Solidecn.com
NZDUSD - New Zealand's economy continues to slow down
One of the drivers of the movement of quotations was the report on the state of the New Zealand economy in the second quarter, according to which the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 1.7% after falling by 0.2% a quarter earlier, while analysts expected growth by 1.0%, which, however, did not have a significant impact on the annual rate, which slowed to 0.4% from 1.2% a quarter earlier, while the forecast was 0.2%. Thus, the average annual GDP slowed down to 1.0% from 5.1% earlier. Today's data on business activity showed an increase in the Manufacturing PMI in August to 54.9 points from 53.5 points a month earlier and somewhat slowed down the downward dynamics of the instrument in anticipation of the release of statistics on Household Spending next week.
Quotes of the NZDUSD pair are traded within the global downtrend, again approaching the support line of the downstream channel. Technical indicators are holding a sell signal, which started strengthening: the fast EMAs of the Alligator indicator are below the signal line, and the histogram of the AO oscillator is trading in the sell zone, forming descending bars.
Support levels: 0.5955, 0.58 | Resistance levels: 0.6035, 0.621