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AUDUSD at 0.69520, New York range 13.2 pips

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

AUDUSD · New York session · Published Oct 7, 2026, 1:35 PM

AUDUSD last traded at 0.69520, inside a New York session that has run 13.2 pips between 0.69428 and 0.69560. The nearest level above is the prior day low at 0.69617, 9.7 pips away, and the nearest below is the previous session low at 0.69489, 3.1 pips away.

London closed at 0.69536 after a 25.9 pip range, having opened at 0.69708 and reached 0.69748. The prior trading day covered 28.4 pips, while 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, a calm day for this market.

The calendar holds 8 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the next 24 hours. The FOMC Meeting Minutes at 18:00 UTC is graded impact 3 of 3, and over 117 past releases of that family AUDUSD moved 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 most recent headline, from FXStreet at 12:30 UTC, is graded impact 2 of 3 for AUDUSD.

Session brief

  1. AUDUSD, New York sessionOpen 0.69536, high 0.69560, low 0.69428, close 0.69520: a range of 13.2 pips over 96 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, London sessionOpen 0.69708, high 0.69748, low 0.69489, close 0.69536: a range of 25.9 pips over 300 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 13:35 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. US Dollar: Assessing NFP release reliability – Standard CharteredFXStreet. 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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