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Near-term downside risks to dollar declining

The recent rise of the Australian dollar to US$0.80 and developments overseas have led us to revise up our end-year forecast from US$0.70 to US$0.75. But we still believe that a fall in iron ore prices and an erosion of Australia’s interest rate premium will prompt the dollar to weaken to US$0.70 next year.

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