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The NZD/USD pair gathers strength to around 0.5705 during the Asian trading hours on Friday. The New Zealand (NZD) remains strong following the Chinese economic data. The US markets will be closed on Friday in observance of Independence Day. 

China's Services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) declined to 54.1 in June from 54.4 in May, the latest data published by RatingDog showed on Friday.  

The GBP/USD pair trades with mild gains near 1.3350 during the early Asian trading hours on Friday. The US Dollar (USD) edges lower against the British Pound (GBP) on a weaker-than-expected US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) report. The US markets will be closed on Friday in observance of Independence Day. 

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price inches lower after registering modest gains in the previous day, trading around $68.40 during the Asian hours on Friday. The global energy market is experiencing a notable cooling period as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East begin to ease.

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Thursday belonged to the US Dollar, not the Aussie. A soft American payrolls print sent AUD/USD spiking toward 0.6950 on release, before it gave most of that back to close well off its high.

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Crude oil prices are crashing on reports that flows out of the Strait of Hormuz are recovering, and analysts are back to predicting oversupply, even though Iran just said it will not be meeting with the U.S. envoys to negotiate peace, and that comes after strikes on a couple of ships in Hormuz. “The Strait is reopening faster than expected, yet the ‘twin solvers’ of high US exports and low Chinese imports remain in place,” Morgan Stanley commodity analysts wrote this week in a note, as quoted...

Silver (XAG/USD) climbs to the top of its weekly trading range on Thursday as the US Dollar (USD) slides to a two-week low after US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) data surprised to the downside. At the time of writing, XAG/USD trades around $61.15, up nearly 3.50% on the day.