{
  "id": 7450824,
  "title": "Australian Dollar remains depressed below mid-0.7100s vs bullish USD after Chinese data",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/australian-dollar-remains-depressed-below-mid-0-7100s-vs-bullish-usd",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-15T02:27:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "FXStreet",
    "slug": "fxstreet",
    "url": "https://www.fxstreet.com/news/australian-dollar-remains-depressed-below-mid-07100s-vs-bullish-usd-after-chinese-data-202609150227"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Australian Dollar (AUD) remains depressed below 0.7150 against the bullish US Dollar (USD) on Tuesday, having struggled to build on a modest bounce from the 0.7100 region or a three-week low. Market sentiment is negative toward the currency pair for the second consecutive day. China's mixed macroeconomic data had little impact on the AUD/USD pair, which stayed stagnant near 0.7130 throughout the Asian trading session. China's National Bureau of Statistics reported that August retail sales grew by 0.4% year-over-year, below the 0.8% expectation, and fixed asset investment dropped to -7.2% year-to-date from -6.7% in July. Industrial production in China increased by 5.2% year-over-year in August, surpassing consensus estimates of 4.8%. However, these figures did not provide any significant boost to the AUD, as the US Dollar continued to be an exclusive driver of the AUD/USD pair's momentum. The US Dollar Index (DXY), which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of currencies, held steady near a two-week peak touched on Monday and persists as a headwind for the AUD/USD pair ahead of the upcoming two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. The anticipation that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) will raise interest rates on Wednesday, combined with oil-inflation risks, strengthens the USD and exerts pressure on the AUD/USD pair. Meanwhile, positive expectations about a potential interest rate hike by Australia's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) later in the month may help mitigate losses for the AUD/USD pair. The AUD/USD pair is currently trading just below the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level at 0.7147, which serves as the immediate upside resistance. The currency pair exhibits a constructive near-term bias above the 50-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) at 0.7074. If the AUD/USD pair sustains its strength above the 50.0% retracement level at 0.7049, it could potentially move toward the recent swing high around 0.7234, where significant resistance is expected to emerge.",
  "summary": "The AUD/USD pair struggles to capitalize on the previous day's modest bounce from the 0.7100 neighborhood, or an over three-week low, and trades with a negative bias for the second straight day on Tuesday.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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