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The RBA left the cash rate unchanged at 0.1%, and asset purchases at AUD 4B/month, in October. Despite sharp rise in housing prices, policymakers chose to stick with ultra-easy monetary policy in order to achieve the inflation target and full employment. The central bank remained cautiously optimistic about the economic outlook. Policymakers acknowledged that “the
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LONDON/MOSCOW: WhatsApp‘s nearly six-hour long outage on Monday hit trading of assets from cryptocurrencies to Russian oil, market players said, although a quick shift to alternative platforms such as Telegram limited severe disruption. Despite many financial institutions discouraging employees from using messaging services such as WhatsApp and other Facebook platforms that went down on Monday,
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Market sentiment is stable today, with European index trading mildly higher while US futures point to a rebound. But overall direction remains rather unclear. Sterling is currently the stronger one, with additional help from buying against other European majors. Kiwi is also firmer, awaiting tomorrow’s RBNZ rate hike, followed by Dollar. On the other hand,
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Posting this as some local Australian political news.  NSW is Australia’s largest population state and home to its largest city of Sydney.  Previous Premier Gladys Berejiklian resigned last week when an investigation was launched into her conduct. Berejiklian had steered NSW through its COVID-19 outbreak to a point where Sydney is on the verge of a much-awaited
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FRANKFURT: Oil prices jumped Monday after OPEC and allied oil producing countries stayed with their gradual approach to restoring output slashed during the pandemic, agreeing to add only 400,000 barrels per day in November. The decision Monday by the Vienna-based oil cartel tracks with its established schedule of adding back that amount of oil every
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Bloomberg with a report on Chinese authorities looking to stem contagion risk from Evergrande: A summary of where we are at, in brief: China Evergrande Group edges closer to a massive restructuring Beijing signaling it’s willing to prop up healthy developers, homeowners and the real estate market at the expense of global bondholders Chinese authorities have
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The government on Thursday hiked by 62 per cent the price of natural gas that is used to produce electricity, make fertilisers and turned into CNG to use as fuel in automobiles and cooking gas for household kitchens. This is the first increase in rates since April 2019 and comes on back of firming benchmark
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