
AUD/USD traded slightly lower below 0.7200 after touching a near 18-month high of 0.7228 in the Asian session. The US Dollar Index fell to a more than two-year low of 92.55 after a sharp drop in US second-quarter GDP and lower Treasury yields.
Traders awaited US personal income and spending data.
The dollar's slide to multi-year lows lifts dollar-denominated commodity prices and changes the cost of imports for buyers in currencies tied to the Aussie. Short-term moves of this size are mainly routine trading noise for feed buyers.
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