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The Australian Dollar is retreating against the USD again. The current quote for the instrument is 0.6469. The Reserve Bank of Australia had a meeting today and decided to raise the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, from 2.35% to 2.60%. Market players were quite surprised: the RBA introduced a 50-point rate after each […]
The Japanese Yen is slowly weakening against the USD. The current quote for the instrument is 144.77. Local interventions from the Bank of Japan calmed the Yen down and helped it reach balance for some time, but the effect didn’t last long, just as expected. The market is back to its previous movements – the […]
The global fast food chain is among the first to participate in a crypto-friendly experiment in the town of Lugano. 9099 Total views 1485 Total shares Multinational fast food chain McDonald’s started to accept Bitcoin (BTC) as a payment method in the 63,000-populated city of Lugano in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland, which is becoming […]
U.S. stocks finished sharply higher on Tuesday, with the Dow rising about 826 points and posting its longest streak of back-to-back gains of more than 2% since May 2020, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The blue-chip index surge about 2.8% to end near 30,316, while the S&P 500 index SPX, +3.06% rose 3.1% and […]
Oil futures rose Tuesday, with U.S. prices marking their highest settlement since mid-September. Reports said the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies will consider a production cut of 2 million barrels per day at their meeting Wednesday, higher than previous expectations for a 1 million-barrel reduction. November WTI crude CLX22, +2.92% rose […]
Shares of Carnival Corp. CCL, +13.15% soared 13.7% in afternoon trading, to bounce off the previous session’s 30-year closing low, and enough to be the S&P 500’s SPX, +2.76% third-biggest gainer. The two bigger gainers were fellow cruise operators, as shares of Royal Caribbean Group RCL, +16.41% ran up 15.4% and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings […]