On Monday, the Australian Dollar rose to 104.07 US cents from the last Friday’s 103.95 cents. This was after the markets digested better than what was expected from the Chinese manufacturing data as well as from weak domestic building approval figures.
According to Andrew Salter, ANZ foreign exchange strategist, the strengthening of the Australian dollar is due to Asian market’s positive reaction to Chinese manufacturing data. As data reveal, China’s manufacturing has continuously expanded in March as opposed to what economist expected it to be.
"The Aussie dollar rose sharply early in the Asian session. But we've unwound some of those gains later this session,” Mr. Salter said.