Asia FX Rallies on China Reopening, Yuan at Over 4-Mth High
Most Asian currencies shot up on Monday, with the Chinese yuan hitting a four-month high after the country reopened its international borders, while hopes of a less hawkish rhetoric from the Federal Reserve also weighed on the dollar and supported regional units. The yuan...
Asia FX Rallies on China Reopening, Yuan at Over 4-Mth High
Most Asian currencies shot up on Monday, with the Chinese yuan hitting a four-month high after the country reopened its international borders, while hopes of a less hawkish rhetoric from the Federal Reserve also weighed on the dollar and supported regional units. The yuan...
Aussie Falters on Soft Jobs Data, kiwi Calm After Ardern Resignation
The Australian dollar reversed a recent rally on Thursday, as rising fears of a U.S. recession and soft local jobs data knocked the risk-sensitive currency, while the kiwi was little moved by the resignation of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The Aussie eased 0.4% to...
Electric car makers ride on sops to woo cab operators
The following article is an analysis of data taken from the INOMICS Salary Report 2020/21 - which is available to download in full here. Specifically, this article looks at the average salaries of economists around the world working in academia, the public sector and the...
Meta Stuns Street With Lower Costs, Big Buyback, Upbeat Sales
Meta Platforms Inc's stricter cost controls this year and a new $40 billion share buyback sent shares soaring on Wednesday, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called 2023 the "Year of Efficiency." The parent of Instagram and Facebook (NASDAQ:META), which has fallen on hard times amid...
Oil Prices Rebound on China Reopening Optimism, Easing Fed Fears
Oil prices rose on Monday, recovering a measure of recent losses as investors bet that an economic reopening in China and a less hawkish rhetoric from the Federal Reserve will help spur a recovery in crude demand this year. China reopened its international borders...
GST revenue jumps 33% year-on-year to over Rs 1.16 lakh crore in July
The Finance Ministry on Sunday (August 1) announced that the Goods and Services Tax revenue for July 2021 stood at more than Rs 1.16 lakh crore. The collection in the period under review is 33% higher than the collection in the same month last...
Non-power coal users claim supply shortage; government denies it
India's aluminium smelters, textile mills, sponge iron and fertiliser-makers say they face a coal shortage as power generators take the bulk of supplies.
India's top miner Coal India Ltd, which accounts for more than 80% of India's production of the fuel, and the federal coal...
Asia FX Heads For Weekly Bounce, Dollar at 7-Mth Low on Easing Inflation
Most Asian currencies crept higher on Friday and were headed for steep weekly gains on the prospect of an eventual shift in the Federal Reserve’s hawkish stance, which also pushed the dollar to a seven-month low. The Japanese yen rose 0.1% to an over...
Dollar Weakens in Wake of CPI Release; Yen Climbs Ahead Of BOJ
The U.S. dollar edged lower in early European trade Friday, continuing the previous session’s selloff after cooling U.S. inflation opened the way for the Federal Reserve to ease the pace of its interest rate hikes. At 03:05 ET (08:05 GMT), the US Dollar Index,...