By guest contributor Stuart Talman, Director of Australian Sales, XE.com. Given the strong headwinds currently buffeting the Aussie dollar and these winds only intensifying further through the past week, it was quite the head scratcher that the Aussie ended the week higher, closing up circa 0.85%. The week’s headlines were dominated by the meltdown in US equity markets caused by a spike higher in long-term US interest rates – the US...