• AUD/USD moved higher overnight, softening late on tariff disappointment

• Trump stipulated Australia not exempt from steel, aluminium tariffs

• Markets wary potential self-inflicted U.S. recession/simultaneous inflation

• CA electricity charge countered by U.S. doubling CA tariffs; later revoked

• Thin domestic updates leave offshore data, geopolitics, tariff news dominant

• U.S. core CPI (Feb) on Wed critical ahead of Mar 19 Fed rate decision

• Overnight range 0.62625-0.63115, support 0.6260 0.6190, resistance 0.6415
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(James Connell is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.)