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SYDNEY, May 1 Asia Pulse - The Australian dollar opened higher today as the US dollar slumped amid rising expectations of an interest rate cut in the world's largest economy.
At 0700 AEST, the domestic unit was trading at $US0.8298/03, up from yesterday's close of $US0.8264/69.
Overnight, the currency traded between a low of $US0.8256 and a high of 0.8329.
OzForex corporate dealer Alex Nicholas said the Australian dollar was pushed higher overnight by a sell-off in the US dollar.
The US dollar remained near its 17-year low against the Australian dollar and near its record low against the Euro, with slowing US inflation increasing the chance of an interest rate cut this year.
The US measure of core inflation, the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) index rose 2.1 per cent in March from a year earlier, to sit just above the US Federal Reserve's (Fed) target band of one to ...
Source: HighBeam Research, FOREX - AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR STARTS STRONGER - MAY 1, 2007.