The New Zealand currency remains one of the few actively resisting the US dollar, and the morning's housing market data supported the NZD/USD pair, which is close to 0.5855.
Thus, in September, the number of new homes in New Zealand amounted to 50.732K, which is 7.0% higher than the same period last year, while the volume of building permits increased by 3.8% after a decrease of 1.6% in August. The average number of new houses per 1,000 residents was 9.9, up from 9.3 last year. Tomorrow, the employment report will be published, from which analysts expect the country's overall unemployment rate to fall to 3.2% from 3.3% earlier. Then the head of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Adrian Orr, will make a speech in which he will comment on the current economic situation and is likely to assess the current monetary policy.
The labor market and the US construction sector situation remain negative, but the US dollar is held at 111.000 in the USD Index. The stagnation could be confirmed today with the release of JOLTs job openings: analysts expect the September figure to drop to 10.000M from 10.053M in August, marking the fifth consecutive decline, with the Manufacturing PMI likely to fall to 50.0 points from 50.9 previously.
The trading instrument is moving within the global downward channel, approaching the resistance line.
Technical indicators keep a buy signal: fast EMAs on the Alligator indicator move away from the signal line, and the AO oscillator histogram forms upward bars in the buying zone.
Resistance levels: 0.5900, 0.6050. | Support levels: 0.5770, 0.5595.