FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Australian dollar softens despite positive Chinese data.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has weakened slightly in Friday's night trade and opens up this morning around the 1.0500 level.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar opens today's trading in the mid 1.0500's recovering from a relatively quiet session Friday night.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar briefly touched below 1.0400 on Friday night but recovered as the US non-farm payrolls for December met expectations.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Australian Dollar peaks at a 2-week high as the United States avoids a fiscal cliff. The local unit traded back above 1.0500 against the Greenback in overnight trade as US Congress approved a bill rolling back a package of tax hikes and spending cuts that had threatened to push America back into recession.

Bell FX Currency Outlook The Australian Dollar has opened this morning in the mid 1.0500's as trading on Friday evening saw little change from the previous day.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has maintained its relative strength from last week as US non-farm payrolls released on Friday night improved more than forecast.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Australian Dollar finds continued support on better than expected Labour Market Data.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar is trading half way between USD 1.0400 and 1.0500 following rallies on global stock markets at the end of last week.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar is trading back in the mid 1.0300's this morning as talks in the US concerning the "fiscal cliff" offered some encouragement that a compromise will be reached between Republicans and Democrats.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Australian Dollar little changed as currency markets play a waiting game. The Aussie dollar traded in a tight range as markets await the RBA meeting and the results of the US presidential elections tonight.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened slightly weaker this morning and is poised to test further upside over the next few weeks should global economic data continue to show signs of improvement.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has edged slightly higher despite a second consecutive poor night on global stock markets.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has fallen one US cent, as markets adjust their view on the Australian economy to one of weakness, following last week's dovish outlook on the global economic outlook by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar continued its firm tone over the weekend as the recent announcement of QE3 by the US Federal Reserve continues to push equity markets higher and the USD continues its downward path.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Weaker US data and positive signs out of China propelled the Australian Dollar significantly higher in the offshore session on Friday.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Weaker Chinese data helped push the AUD below 1.0400 on Friday night but the ongoing threat of more central bank stimulus has kept the AUD above the 1.0400 level this morning.

Australia: The AUD has been the beneficiary of global central bank and institutional buying in recent weeks. This has been due partly to Australia's relatively higher interest rates and yields on Commonwealth and state government bonds as compared to other developed economies.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar continued its firm tone this morning on the expectation there will be more bank stimulus in the US, ECB & China.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has maintained its firm tone this morning, after US jobs data on Friday night were higher than expected, fueling a jump in major equity indices in Europe and the US.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has retreated from its recent highs over 1.0400 to begin trading this week in the mid 1.0300's as news from Europe continued to dominate the financial headlines.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened above 1.0200 following Friday's Chinese Q2 GDP data and rallying equity markets Friday night.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened this morning firmly above 1.0200 after a breakthrough in the EU summit in Brussels late last week. European bailout funds will be directly lent to Spanish banks (rather than to the Spanish government).

Bell FX Currency Outlook: After all the volatility of the last week or so the Australian Dollar starts the week over parity after fairly benign announcements on Friday.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The AUD has continued its firm tone from Friday's trading, as it appears a new coalition government will be formed in Greece between the New Democracy Party and PASOK, giving them control of 161 seats in the 301 seat parliament.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The news of a Spanish bailout boosted the AUD over the long weekend, briefly trading above parity, but it has since retreated back as investors come to the realisation that this is merely a quick fix.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Market sentiment turned negative on Friday as poorer jobs data in the US and weaker Chinese PMI figures moved equity markets lower as the possibility of further stimuli from central banks helped prevent the AUD from falling further.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened this morning in the low 0.9800's as markets still focus on the European debt crisis with Spain starting to push Greece off the front page.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar continues in languish in the 0.9800's after the G8 meeting held on the weekend produced no "revelations" of how to deal with the economic woes of Europe.