Australian wool prices recovered to rise slightly at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle this week. The Australian Wool Exchange's Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) rose by 2 cents to 651 cents a kg clean, after falling by a total of 17 cents in the two previous weeks.
"Steadying of the market in US dollar terms continues the trend seen at the end of last week's sale and reflects the considerable enquiry from China," the Australian Wool Industries Secretariat said. A weaker Australian dollar against the US dollar this week left currency effects mainly neutral for wool sales, with the EMI unchanged in US dollar terms and up by 3 cents in Euro terms. This week the market opened strongly on Tuesday, with good demand across most micron ranges, and maintained most of the momentum for the rest of the week, AWIS said.