Forexpros – The Australian Dollar was lower against the U.S. Dollar on Friday after the release of U.S. data on Nonfarm Payrolls.
AUD/USD was trading at 1.0326, down 0.88% at time of writing.
The pair was likely to find support at 1.0204, Thursday’s low, and resistance at 1.0697, Monday’s high.
Earlier in the day, official data showed that U.S. non-farm payrolls rose less-than-expected to a seasonally adjusted 80K last month, from 158K in the preceding month whose figure was revised up from 103K.
Analysts had expected U.S. non-farm payrolls to rise 95K last month.
Meanwhile, the Australian Dollar was down against the Euro and the Japanese Yen, with EUR/AUD gaining 0.21% to hit 1.3298 and AUD/JPY falling 0.66% to hit 80.78.