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AUDUSD holds 0.69712, London range 8.6 pips

FOMC Meeting Minutes at 18:00 UTC is the next high-impact USD release

AUDUSD · London session · Published Oct 7, 2026, 8:40 AM

AUDUSD last traded at 0.69712, inside a London session that has run 8.6 pips between 0.69643 and 0.69729. The nearest level above is the prior day high at 0.69900, 18.8 pips away, and the nearest below is the prior session low at 0.69665, 4.7 pips away.

The Asia session closed at 0.69708 after a range of 18.2 pips, from 0.69665 to 0.69848. An ordinary day over the last 14 covers 46.4 pips, and the latest day sits at the 21st percentile of the last 42 days, which is a calm day for this market.

Eight releases of impact 2 or 3 sit in the 24 hours to 2026-10-08 08:40 UTC, starting with EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change at 14:30 UTC. Past FOMC releases moved AUDUSD 6.31 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 11.10 in the first 60, in either direction.

Large speculators are net short 63239 contracts, a change of -16425 on the week, the 14th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports. The top graded headline for AUDUSD, from FXStreet at 07:51 UTC, covers the Australian Dollar pulling back from a one-week top as the USD stays firm ahead of the FOMC Minutes.

Session brief

  1. AUDUSD, London sessionOpen 0.69708, high 0.69729, low 0.69643, close 0.69712: a range of 8.6 pips over 100 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  2. AUDUSD reference levelsPrevious day and previous week high and low, the session open and the round numbers either side, measured on our own candles.
  3. AUDUSD, Asia sessionOpen 0.69835, high 0.69848, low 0.69665, close 0.69708: a range of 18.2 pips over 595 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  4. AUDUSD daily rangeAn ordinary day of the last 14 covers 46.4 pips. The latest day sits at the 21st percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is a calm day for this market. Measured on our own candles.
  5. Economic calendar for AUD and USD8 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-10-08 08:40 UTC. Our calendar covers up to 2026-11-06 00:00 UTC.
  6. AUDUSD reaction to fomc_usdOver 117 past releases AUDUSD moved 6.31 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 11.10 in the first 60, in either direction. Measured on our own one-minute candles.
  7. CFTC Commitments of Traders, 232741Large speculators are net short 63239 contracts, a change of -16425 on the week. That is the 14th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports.
  8. Australian Dollar pulls back from one-week top as USD stays firm ahead of FOMC MinutesFXStreet. Graded impact 2 of 3 for AUDUSD by our headline classifier.
  9. USD FOMC Meeting MinutesScheduled 2026-10-07 18:00 UTC, impact 3 of 3. From Forex Factory.

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