Forexpros – The Australian Dollar was higher against the U.S. Dollar on Thursday after the release of Australian data on Employment Change.

AUD/USD was trading at 1.0098, up 0.49% at time of writing.

The pair was likely to find support at 1.0022, Wednesday’s low, and resistance at 1.0220, Monday’s high.

Earlier in the day, official data showed that Australian employment change rose unexpectedly to a seasonally adjusted 15.5K last month from 44.0K in the preceding month.

Analysts had expected Australian employment change to fall -5.5K last month.

Meanwhile, the Australian Dollar was up against the Euro and the Japanese Yen, with EUR/AUD shedding 0.38% to hit 1.2817 and AUD/JPY rising 0.54% to hit 80.46.

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