8 January, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Westpac on the AUD – capped at 0.7450/0.75 & "One tweet away from a tumble"
Westpac on the AUD – capped at 0.7450/0.75 & "One tweet away from a tumble"
In the Australian press today:
Anxiety that a Tweet-trigger happy US President-elect Donald Trump could spark a trade war at any moment will keep the Australian dollar below 75¢ versus the US dollar, say Westpac currency strategists.
That link is to the full piece in the Australian Financial Review
8 January, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Wall Street Journal: Mentally ill shouldn’t have guns, Florida sheriff says after massacre
The Wall Street Journal: Mentally ill shouldn’t have guns, Florida sheriff says after massacre
Days after a gunman killed five people at a Florida airport, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said he believes people suffering from mental illness shouldn’t have access to guns.
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8 January, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Wall Street Journal: California storm delays SpaceX rocket launch
The Wall Street Journal: California storm delays SpaceX rocket launch
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
8 January, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on GBP update (or downdate I suppose)
GBP update (or downdate I suppose)
The ‘early indications’ post is here:
Monday morning FX – early price indications
I did a double-take when I saw the ‘opening’ levels for GBP … but yeah, it was not just my bleary eyes, the poor old GBP is down a bit to begin the week.
8 January, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Wall Street Journal: 4 Israeli soldiers killed in Jerusalem truck-ramming
The Wall Street Journal: 4 Israeli soldiers killed in Jerusalem truck-ramming
An Arab man rammed a truck into Israeli soldiers on a busy promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four, in what Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a terrorist attack
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8 January, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Megyn Kelly says goodbye on ‘The Kelly File’: ‘I am better for having been here’
Megyn Kelly says goodbye on ‘The Kelly File’: ‘I am better for having been here’
Megyn Kelly says goodbye on ‘The Kelly File’: ‘I am better for having been here’
“I’ll see you again soon,” Megyn Kelly promised in her signoff from The Kelly File on Friday night.
8 January, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Economic data due from Asia today – Australia only
Economic data due from Asia today – Australia only
A light data day, a few bits and bobs from Australia:
2230GMT – Performance of Construction Index for December (this is the construction PMI)
– prior 46.6
Last week we got December manufacturing and services PMIs, both on the improve,