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Rask Media outlines three headwinds that could push the Australian dollar below 80 US cents: falling iron ore prices, slowing Chinese growth and widening interest rate differentials. Iron ore closed down 0.9% at US$74.40 a tonne.
Weaker iron ore and Chinese demand signal softer Australian export earnings and potential weakness in the Aussie dollar. For feed buyers the effect on grain and meal prices is indirect.
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Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.