Australian dollar rises, euro up after China says open for partial trade deal

Wednesday,   09-Oct-2019   04:29 PM (IST)

Currencies linked with greater investor risk appetite, such as the Australian dollar, jumped on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported China remained open to signing a partial trade deal with the United States despite being put on the tech blacklist. The U.S. government has widened its trade blacklist to include some of China’s top artificial intelligence start-ups, punishing Beijing for its treatment of mostly Muslim minorities and ratcheting up tensions ahead of high-level trade talks in Washington this week. The Australian dollar, a global risk barometer, was last up 0.3% at $0.6744 and the New Zealand dollar rose 0.4% to $0.6319. China's yuan was up 0.5% at 7.1308 against the dollar in the offshore trading.  The euro was up 0.3% at $1.09785. The index that tracks the dollar against a basket of six other currencies was down 0.1% at 99.007. The biggest move in the foreign exchange market, however, was an early morning plunge in the Swedish crown, both against the euro and the dollar ,on concerns the U.S.-China conflict over trade and foreign policy was nowhere near a resolution and was increasingly damaging the global economy. Sweden’s open economy makes the crown vulnerable to global growth dynamics and therefore to the trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies, which has hurt growth in the two years since U.S. President Donald Trump ignited the trade war. The Swedish crown was last steady, after falling earlier to a 10-year low of 10.9230 against the euro and a 17-year low of 9.9639 against the dollar.