This is the current AUD-MXN mid-market exchange rate. The Total Cost of buying foreign currency in the above table is calculated as the sum of all fees and the exchange rate margin, which is the difference between the provider's exchange rate and the mid-market AUD-MXN exchange rate.
Whenever you are researching a particular exchange rate you are actually interested in two currencies as the value of a currency must always be quoted relative to a second currency.
So it follows that if you are determining the best time to transact, in this case the AUD vs MXN, you should pay attention to both Australian Dollar and Mexican Peso news and forecasts.
Following a flash crash in early January, which saw the Australian dollar briefly trade at a 10-year low of $0.674, the Aussie recovered to $0.73, but then, as it had done before the flash crash, it commenced with a slow and steady decline, and it was back at $0.705 in mid-March and was predicted to fall further.
In February, HSBC predicted a year-end AUD/USD rate of $0.66. In March, Westpac and JP Morgan were slightly more upbeat and argued for $0.68.
Fuelling lower exchange rate forecasts is the Australian economic story, for which major themes include a housing market slump, Chinese growth and the US-China trade spat. The RBA slashed growth forecasts in February and markets are now pricing in 1-2 interest rate cuts this year.
Another Aussie exchange rate worth mentioning is AUD/GBP, which sank in mid-March to its lowest level in nearly 3 years, at just £0.53. The Australian dollar has been unable to compete with the pound of late, since the latter benefits every time the British government fails to make a decision on how to deliver Brexit (every time Brexit appears less likely or to be delayed).
12-February-2019: The December-January period was an excellent one for the Mexican peso as it strengthened by nearly 7 percent into the low 19s per USD. Traders began piling into pesos after USD/MXN failed multiple times in the fourth quarter ’18 to break meaningfully through important resistance at 20.5-20.6.
From here on in, the peso stands to appreciate, or will at least be among the best performing emerging market currencies of 2019, says an analyst at ING. The analyst said in February that the peso had most to gain because of its sensitivity to the oil price, which ING says has significant upside this year.
Also supporting the peso in 2019 will be a slower pace of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. Under such conditions the dollar will weaken, and emerging market currencies should gain value as a result because their respective governments usually hold high levels of dollar-denominated debt, which becomes easier to repay when dollars are cheaper.
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