NZD/USD: testing lows after retail sales miss

NZD/USD is little changed on the retail sales data, despite it falling below expectations of 1.5% and turning up at 1.2$ Q/Q Q4 2015.

The cluster of MA's around the 100 sma on the hourly chart had been harboring the price, but the bird is starting to succumb to downside pressures and price is slipping away below the ma's at time of writing.

NZD/USD the 200 dma is a strong resistance level and the bird has liuttle chance of crossing that bridge unless something fundamentally propells the bird to challenge the highs for the year so far at 0.6883 as key upside target. The 200 dma is located at 0.6686 today.

NZD/USD levels


0.6676 was today's high so far and the bird is slipping away from there in this data targeting 0.6620 on the downside guarding 0.6609 being the recent low. S1 is at 0.6558 and S3 at 0.6525.

NZ retail sales rose 1.2% in Q4, below expectations

New Zealand retail sales grew by 1.2% in the fourth quarter 2015, against expectations of a 1.5% rise. This increase follows a rise of 1.5% in the September 2015 quarter. Sales rose by 4.4% to NZD 21.8 billion in the December 2015 quarter from a year ago.
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RBA minutes preview - what to expect in AUD/USD?

AUD/USD is currently trading with a bearish bias within the bulls recovery of 2016 lows, meeting the 100 dma at 0.7143 that is capping the bulls progress. The Aussie is now testing the congestion ahead of 0.7120 support ahead of the RBA's minutes as today's main event in Asia.
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