AUD/USD fades after two successive day gains. The pair has been pressured around 0.7345 at the start of Tuesday’s Asian session.The AUD overcame firmer US Dollar Index and Treasury yields to mark a positive week’s start before easing from 0.7371 ahead of the RBA’s latest monetary policy meeting minutes and …
Read More »Biden Signs Infrastructure Bill Into Law
The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill has been signed into law by US President. Roads and bridges represents $110 billion investment, below the $159 billion initially requested per Biden’s Jobs Plan.The White House says it would be the largest dedicated bridge investment since the 1950s.$16 billion cover major projects as …
Read More »Why Do Markets Await RBA’s Minutes?
The Reserve Bank of Australia will release the minutes of its monetary policy meeting on Tuesday, two weeks after the interest rate decision was announced. The minutes provides a detailed insight on the discussions held between the RBA’s board members on monetary policy and economic conditions that influenced their decision …
Read More »RBA Warns of High House Prices
Australia’s central bank has admitted that booming house prices are worsening the inequality gap.Before a parliamentary committee’s inquiry on housing affordability on Monday, the RBA confessed that low income Australians would be forcibly pushed into poverty if buying a property becomes increasingly unaffordable.The comments made by RBA assistant governor Luci …
Read More »Will White House Tap Oil Reserves?
Oil prices slipped to a one-week low on Monday on expectations on supply boost and weaker demand under pressures from recent surge in energy costs, the strong dollar and increasing COVID-19 cases.On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urged Biden’s administration to tap into Emergency Petroleum Reserves (SPR) to lower …
Read More »Will Biden’s Pick for Fed Chair Unfold This week?
President Joe Biden is expected to decide as soon as this week whether Jerome Powell will be re-nominated for a second term as Fed Chair or Lael Brainard is Biden’s pick instead.The Wall Street Journal reported that Biden’s meetings with both had only other adviser, National Economic Council Director Brian …
Read More »Historic Inflation Ignites Growing Calls to Speed Taper
A growing consensus of market watchers, investors and traders says that the Federal Reserve Bank has to speed up its taper procedures, namely the reduction of asset purchases in light of the fastest inflation in 31 years.The calls, ranging from former New York Fed President Bill Dudley to St. Louis …
Read More »Business Experts Urge Biden to Rid of China’s Tariffs
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, tens of businessmen are calling on Joe Biden to remove tariffs on China to help ease historic levels of inflation.The business community warned tariffs on China and retaliatory levies are hurting U. S. companies, industries and families by …
Read More »BoE Governor Extremely Uneasy About Spiking Inflation
Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, declared before members of the Parliament that he is ‘very uneasy’ about the UK’s inflation situation, in comments that suggest he could vote for an interest rate rise soon.Testifying to the Treasury Committee, Bailey said this month’s vote to leave interest rates …
Read More »Article 16 Drags UK and EU to Brinkmanship
Relations between the UK and EU have been tattered due to the brinkmanship over the British threats to trigger an emergency clause known as Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol. European Commission’s Maros Sefcovic said the EU will consider all tools at its disposal if the UK Government triggers …
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