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Australian dollar, Singapore Dollar and Taiwanese dollar most susceptible to Chinese slowdown
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- Category: Australian Dollar
- Published on Saturday, 31 March 2012 10:40
- Written by Sam Coventry
The Australian dollar (Currency:AUD) has suffered over the course of the past two weeks, this in line with observations that the wind behind the Chinese economy is weakening.
According to Guillermo Felices at Barclays, notes that this mainly reflects downward forecast revisions due to the authorities' attempts to rebalance the economy from investment and net exports to consumption-led growth.
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"The authorities revised down their official growth forecast for 2012 by 0.5pp to 7.5%, and our base case is also for a soft landing: we forecast 8.1% in 2012 from 9.2% last year. There are downside risks to these forecasts, however. The main one is a rapid fall in property prices as the government tries to cool down the property market," says Felices.
According to Barclays, their analysis shows that the Australian dollar, Singapore Dollar (Currency:SGD) and Taiwan Dollar (Currency:TWD) appear most vulnerable to China; while Indian Rupee and Philippine Peso are the least exposed.
Barclays say these results suggest positioning for China risks by shorting the latter group versus the USD or versus the former for those looking for relative value opportunities in FX.
Looking at the latest exchange rate market action, Friday saw currency majors struggling within usual and narrow trading ranges in the last trading session of 1Q12, although the USD is slowly regaining ground.
With regards to the euro dollar exchange rate, fluctuations between 1.3250 and 1.34 should remain of reference for EUR-USD, with most of the activity expected to remain at around the 1.33 area.
In addition, the possible outcome of the EMU meeting in Copenhagen this weekend is unlikely to have a strong supporting effect.
The pound dollar rate is seen seesawing activity between 1.5850 and 1.6050 seems the name of the game now for cable. Therefore, EUR-GBP should continue to spin around the 0.8350 threshold without a clear direction.
