Australian Dollar Remains Lower on Fiscal Cliff Concerns
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Australia’s dollar remained lower as an impasse on talks to avert the so-called fiscal cliff in the U.S. sapped demand for higher-yielding assets.
The Australian and New Zealand dollars held losses against most major peers from last week after House Speaker John Boehner failed to garner support for a plan that would have extended tax cuts on incomes below $1 million. The so-called Aussie gained against the yen after Japan’s incoming prime minister Shinzo Abe reiterated calls for the central bank to set an inflation target of 2 percent.