Australia’s fourth-quarter national accounts have been released where Gross Domestic Product was expected to have risen by 2.5% QoQ taking year-ended growth to -1.8%YoY.
However, the data is better than expected for the quarter.
Aussie GDP
- AUSTRALIA Q4 REAL GDP +3.1 PCT QTR/QTR, S/ADJ (REUTERS POLL +2.5 PCT)
- 02-Mar-2021 18:30:01 – AUSTRALIA Q4 REAL GDP -1.1 PCT YR/YR, S/ADJ (REUTERS POLL -1.8 PCT)
- 02-Mar-2021 18:30:01 – AUSTRALIA Q4 FINAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE +3.2 PCT, S/ADJ
- 02-Mar-2021 18:30:01 – AUSTRALIA Q4 GROSS FIXED CAPITAL EXPENDITURE +3.6 PCT, S/ADJ
- 02-Mar-2021 18:30:01 – AUSTRALIA Q4 CHAIN PRICE INDEX +1.7 PCT
AUD/USD reaction
AUD/USD is a touch higher on the data and has been well on its way towards the following target at the M-formation’s neckline at 0.7880:
AUD/USD Price Analysis: Bulls target 0.7880 in price recovery
The data is helping this setup move towards the target in a higher high:
More to come…
AUD/USD has been helped along on Wednesday with a better bid tone in markets owing to a stabilisation in US bond markets and weakness in the US dollar, buoying the commodities sector.
The Reserve Bank of Australia doubled down on its commitment to keep monetary policy settings loose yesterday and the markets expect the RBA to expand its bond purchase program by another $100bn in the summer time, potentially as soon as June.
This comes due to the insertion of the phrase that the RBA “is prepared to make further adjustments to its [bond] purchases in response to market conditions”.
On the currency, the central bank explained that AUUD “remains in the upper end of the range of recent years” and that current monetary policy settings are “contributing to a lower exchange rate than otherwise”.
Prior to the data, analysts at ANZ bank explained ”consistent with the run of better-than-expected partial data, the forecast bounce in Q4 GDP is larger than we had anticipated a few months ago, suggesting that spending has held up well despite the large reduction in fiscal stimulus in the quarter.”
About Aussie Gross Domestic Product
The Gross Domestic Product released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics is a measure of the total value of all goods and services produced by Australia. The GDP is considered as a broad measure of the economic activity and health. A rising trend has a positive effect on the AUD, while a falling trend is seen as negative (or bearish) for the AUD.
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