NZD/USD loses ground due to risk aversion ahead of the Fed Chair Powell’s speech scheduled on Friday. The recent
Minutes suggested that most Fed officials agreed on a rate cut in September. The New Zealand Dollar declines as Retail Sales is expected to fall by 1.0% QoQ for Q2. This downside of the NZD/USD pair could be attributed to the improved US Dollar amid higher Treasury yields. Traders adopt caution ahead of the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s keynote speech at the Jackson Hole Annual Symposium on Friday.
Minutes for July’s policy meeting indicated that most Fed officials agreed last month that they would likely cut their benchmark interest rate at the upcoming meeting in September as long as inflation continued to cool. Furthermore, traders await Fed Chair Jerome Powell's upcoming speech at Jackson Hole on Friday.