Thursday, September 30, 2021

End of Third Quarter 2021

The DXY weighted dollar dipped 0.1% overnight but experienced a quarterly advance of around 2.5%. In the Pacific Rim, share prices on the final trading day of the quarter rose 1.9% in Australia, 1.4% in New Zealand, 2.0% in Indonesia, and 0.9% in China but fell by 0.4% in Hong Kong and 0.3% in Japan. […]

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Monday, September 27, 2021

Norges Bank

Central bank rate normalization has begun in Norway. Officials of the Bank of Norway at today’s scheduled policy review decided to increase their policy rate by 25 basis points to 0.25% from a record low of zero percent. This action reverses a 25-bp cut in May 2020 that followed two reductions in March totaling 75 […]

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Sunday, September 26, 2021

Considerable Central Bank News and a Whole Lot More

The takeaways from Fed Chairman Powell’s press conference yesterday are that a tapering of Fed bond purchases could begin as soon as right after the next scheduled FOMC meeting and should be drawn down to zero by mid-2022, plus the lift-off date for the fed funds target could occur next year rather than in 2023. […]

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Saturday, September 25, 2021

Pound Australian Dollar Exchange Rate News: GBP/AUD Muted amid UK Economic Concerns

Pound (GBP) Undermined by Rising Economic Uncertainty The Pound (GBP) is trading without any strong directional bias against the Australian Dollar (AUD) today as traders grow increasingly concerned about the UK’s economic trajectory. As a result surge in wholesale gas prices, the UK is now facing an energy price...

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