• A large 0.6300 option expiry is helping to anchor AUD/USD

• The size of the strike for the 10am ET NY cut is A$1 billion

• 0.6271 was Thursday's one-week low, as risk aversion hurt AUD

• Stop-loss sell orders tipped below 0.6260 (0.6259 = March 11 low)

• Australian Feb inflation data due next week (March 26); 2.5% forecast

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(Robert Howard is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)