AUD/USD Drops to 0.9970 After Confidence Data

Australia’s dollar declined toward an 11-month low after a private report showed business confidence slid amid bets that the Reserve Bank will cut interest rates further to curb the currency’s strength.

The so-called Aussie weakened against most of its 16 major peers after Barclays Plc cut its forecast for the currency, citing Australia’s falling yield advantage. New Zealand’s dollar extended its decline to a sixth day versus the U.S. greenback as the premium on the South Pacific nation’s 10-year note rate over Treasuries was near a four-year low.

“The Australian dollar has a little bit more room to decline,” said Takuya Kawabata, an analyst at Gaitame.com Research Institute Ltd. in Tokyo, a unit of Japan’s largest currency margin-trading company. “A recovery in the Aussie above $1 and a further advance would fan speculation the RBA will cut borrowing costs again.”

Bloomberg

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