The Traderszone Network

Coming up from China; I don’t have a scheduled time for this, and … it may not even be today. But, it will be today or tomorrow so a heads up!
March data:
New Yuan Loans CNY

China will punish 357 officials implicated in the sale of improperly handled vaccines, a scandal that has reignited drug safety fears and further eroded trust in the country’s public health system.
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As Tax Day (April 18th) looms, we are once again reminded of how deeply the government reaches into our pockets. However, as Bloomberg details, there is one way to reduce your income tax burden – Switch states. Federal tax rates are the same no matter where you live, but state income taxes are all over the place.

Some have progressive tax systems, where top earners pay a higher marginal rate on their taxable income than those who make less.

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I’ve been getting plenty of reports of site problems today but so far haven’t managed to fix it
The issue is with European servers
BUT, here’s the good news …. the servers in Japan are working just fine.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand  confirm the March rate cut decision was leaked
– Says lock-up for media, analysts to be discontinued
– Leak is serious and disappointing breach

Das maintains that a world without growth is not necessarily a problem—the problem is with the expectations of people who expect to get richer from the current economic model, or who otherwise depend upon permanent high levels of growth in some way…

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Australian employment data for March
Employment Change: +26.1 K
– expected +17.0K, prior -0.7K revised from +0.3K
Unemployment Rate:  5.7%
– expected 5.9%, prior 5.8%
Full Time Employment Change, -8.8 K