Archive for July 3rd, 2009

NZDUSD looking to target below 0.6200

Friday, July 3rd, 2009


New York Session

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

It was another exciting session in NY early on as the buck extended overnight gains on unbridled risk aversion. The overnight comments from China that they did not ask the G-8 to discuss the USD reserve status at the meeting next week provided the spark and a horrendous NFP report did the rest. US nonfarm payrolls plunged -467K in June, well below the consensus call for a -365K drop but more in line with our forecast of -410K. This sent equities reeling and the yen crosses were promptly sold