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Yen rises to 8-week high on BOJ hike bets, receding trade war risk

Asahi News 06 Feb 2025
dollar on Thursday after a Bank of Japan policy board member advocated continued interest-rate hikes ... Sterling retreated from a one-month high with the Bank of England widely expected to cut rates by a quarter point later in the day.
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World inflation at risk of rekindling with Trump’s trade war

Detroit news 06 Feb 2025
The World Bank predicted slowing inflation but still warned that it “could prove to be more persistent than expected.” ... In Australia, financial markets and economists are predicting the central bank will finally embark on an easing cycle on Feb.
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ECB hopes Trump's crypto plan will speed up digital euro

Emirates 24/7 06 Feb 2025
Nigeria, Jamaica and the Bahamas have already launched central bank digital currency (CBDC) and a further 44 countries, including Russia, China, Australia and Brazil are running pilots, according to the Atlantic Council think tank.
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UFC 312: Tatiana Suarez wants to show evolution versus Weili Zhang

Daily Bulletin 06 Feb 2025
... dream of fighting for gold will become reality Saturday when she challenges 115-pound champion Weili Zhang in the UFC 312 co-main event in Sydney, Australia ... Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia.
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Chilling sign the worst of Anthony Albanese's cost of living crisis is far from over ...

The Daily Mail 05 Feb 2025
Australia's Big Four banks are universally expecting the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates on February 18, from an existing 4.35 per cent level, after headline inflation last year fell below the mid-point of the RBA's two to three per cent target.
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Australia are in pursuit of perfection as Sri Lanka seek to learn from their mistakes

Yahoo Daily News 05 Feb 2025
Sam Konstas leaves Australia’s Sri Lanka tour early to play Sheffield Shield ... Australia have prepared for those conditions too, and with the run-fest banked, it would be much more entertaining and instructive to see how they combat difficulty.
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Westpac Bank strikes $80k settlement with Kiwi scam victims who lost $323k to investment fraud

NewstalkZB 05 Feb 2025
The bank recovered ... Mark Geraets had been contacted by a man posing as an HSBC portfolio manager who convinced him to invest in Victoria State Government bonds with the National Australia Bank (NAB).
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'Huge relief': Kiwi scam victims get some of their life savings back

NewstalkZB 05 Feb 2025
The bank recovered ... Mark Geraets had been contacted by a man posing as an HSBC portfolio manager who convinced him to invest in Victoria State Government bonds with the National Australia Bank (NAB).
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Yuan slumps on trade-war anxiety; yen jumps

Asahi News 05 Feb 2025
... Lunar New Year break, while the yen jumped on rising bets of further Bank of Japan (BOJ) rate hikes this year ... tariffs,” said Carol Kong, a currency strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA).
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Buchanan back chasing Order of Merit points

PGA Tour 05 Feb 2025
The WA PGA and Webex Players Series South Australia champion sits in fourth place in the standings despite not banking any points in his last two starts and then missing Webex Players Series Victoria last month due to illness ... .
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International backlash after Trump proposal to take over Gaza

Raw Story 05 Feb 2025
Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said "it is clear that Gaza –- like the West Bank and east Jerusalem –- belongs to the Palestinians. They form the basis for a future Palestinian state."- AUSTRALIA -.
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Stocks recover but tariff uncertainty lingers over market

The Manila Times 05 Feb 2025
But Art Hogan of B ... All three US indices finished higher after a sluggish start ... Markets are going to remain subject to massive headline risk in coming hours days and years," forecast Ray Attrill, foreign currency strategist at National Australia Bank.
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Anna Paul LOSES almost half a million followers on social media amid online feud with ...

The Daily Mail 05 Feb 2025
The drama began last week when fellow social media star and OnlyFans model Mikaela, 24, claimed in a lengthy clip posted to TikTok that Anna, her former friend of almost a decade, made fun of a 'plus-size fan' in 2021 during a visit to South Bank.
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Aussie bank blasted over plans to close 18 branches in regional towns | Daily Mail Online

The Daily Mail 04 Feb 2025
A bank with over 700,000 members in regional Australia has announced it will close over a dozen branches in a major step towards online banking ... There has been a tsunami of bank branch closures in ...
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Why has NZ's economy been hit so hard?

RNZ 04 Feb 2025
But that also pushed inflation up, which the Reserve Bank responded to with sharp interest rate hikes - again at a world-leading pace ... In Australia they have a labour market mandate as part of the Reserve Bank criteria.

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