{"id":22128,"date":"2011-07-05T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=14890"},"modified":"2011-07-05T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:39:57","slug":"australia-holds-rates-steady-trade-surplus-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/07\/05\/australia-holds-rates-steady-trade-surplus-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Holds Rates Steady, Trade Surplus Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) held their short-term interest rates<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/en\/market-analysis\/jpy\/\"> steady at 4.75%<\/a> this morning, meeting analyst expectations. The value of the Australian dollar (AUD) was largely affected in a bizarre neutral fashion. The currency appears to be holding off on significant shifts as news from its neighbors comes in over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-14890\"><\/span>Analysts are speculating that a fall in Chinese yuan (CNY) values may drop the Aussie, as could a hike in New Zealand\u2019s interest rates. But for now the Aussie seems to be holding its recent losses in anticipation of a further decline. Forex traders looking for a gamble may see this as an opportunity to jump into a new trend before it really takes off.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) held their short-term interest rates steady at 4.75% this morning, meeting analyst expectations. The value of the Australian dollar (AUD) was largely affected in a bizarre neutral fashion. The currency appears to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}