WELLINGTON/SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The Australian and New Zealand dollars edged up on the U.S. dollar on Monday after the euro posted broad-based gains and investors showed more appetite for risk amid hopes that the euro zone debt crisis is waning.
* Aussie around $0.9880/90, compared with $0.9856 in Friday's late local trading. It ranged $0.9847-0.9917 in the offshore session.
* Immediate resistance for the Aussie is seen at $0.9915 and then $0.9955, while support looms at around $0.9830, last week's low.
* The New Zealand dollar opens around $0.7585, from Friday's late local level of $0.7545. It ranged $0.7536 to $0.7594 in the offshore session.
* Kiwi's support seen at $0.7540, the 100-day moving average, with resistance at the Jan 20 low of $0.7620.
* The euro hit a two-month high around $1.3650 and breaks an important technical level as anxiety about the euro zone's debt problems recede.
* The single currency got an extra lift from hawkish comments by ECB head Trichet in a WSJ interview
* The euro extends recent gains against the Antipodean pair,
touching a two-month high against the Aussie at A$1.3768 and a nine-week high against the kiwi at NZ$1.7977.
* The Aussie holds close to a one week-high against the kiwi NZ$1.3031.
* The Reserve Bank of NZ has its first rate review on Thursday with analysts seeing no chance of a rise before June and market pricing implying the first rise in July. Recent mixed data has done little to raise concerns about either inflation or a rapid lift in growth.
* Australian producer prices due Monday with expectations of a quarterly rise of 0.5 percent. Australian consumer price index due on Tuesday with forecasts of 0.7 percent quarterly rise and 3 percent annual rate.
* Underlying inflation is seen running around 2.6 pct for the year, well within the RBA's 2 to 3 pct target band, though this is likely to be the low point and it is expected to gradually rise from here.
* NZ markets will be thinned on Monday by a regional holiday in Wellington, while Australian markets will be closed on Wednesday for the Australia Day holiday.
* New Zealand government bond yields flat, with interest rate futures a touch weaker at the short end and flat elsewhere.
* Australian bond futures a touch higher, with the three-year contract up 0.02 points at 94.800, and the 10-year contract 0.045 points higher at 94.375.
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* Aussie around $0.9880/90, compared with $0.9856 in Friday's late local trading. It ranged $0.9847-0.9917 in the offshore session.
* Immediate resistance for the Aussie is seen at $0.9915 and then $0.9955, while support looms at around $0.9830, last week's low.
* The New Zealand dollar opens around $0.7585, from Friday's late local level of $0.7545. It ranged $0.7536 to $0.7594 in the offshore session.
* Kiwi's support seen at $0.7540, the 100-day moving average, with resistance at the Jan 20 low of $0.7620.
* The euro hit a two-month high around $1.3650 and breaks an important technical level as anxiety about the euro zone's debt problems recede.
* The single currency got an extra lift from hawkish comments by ECB head Trichet in a WSJ interview
* The euro extends recent gains against the Antipodean pair,
touching a two-month high against the Aussie at A$1.3768 and a nine-week high against the kiwi at NZ$1.7977.
* The Aussie holds close to a one week-high against the kiwi NZ$1.3031.
* The Reserve Bank of NZ has its first rate review on Thursday with analysts seeing no chance of a rise before June and market pricing implying the first rise in July. Recent mixed data has done little to raise concerns about either inflation or a rapid lift in growth.
* Australian producer prices due Monday with expectations of a quarterly rise of 0.5 percent. Australian consumer price index due on Tuesday with forecasts of 0.7 percent quarterly rise and 3 percent annual rate.
* Underlying inflation is seen running around 2.6 pct for the year, well within the RBA's 2 to 3 pct target band, though this is likely to be the low point and it is expected to gradually rise from here.
* NZ markets will be thinned on Monday by a regional holiday in Wellington, while Australian markets will be closed on Wednesday for the Australia Day holiday.
* New Zealand government bond yields flat, with interest rate futures a touch weaker at the short end and flat elsewhere.
* Australian bond futures a touch higher, with the three-year contract up 0.02 points at 94.800, and the 10-year contract 0.045 points higher at 94.375.
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