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Lordy, China data is a mess. Base effects have distorted everything. If we look through the fog what we find mostly is a disappointment. First-quarter GDP was only 0.6%, far below the forecast 1.4%. That is disguised by year on year figures which are wonky as anything 18.3%: The internals for the month of March
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Via the excellent gents at Nordea: Could Bitcoin undermine the dollar and the United States? Perhaps. We do see reasons to mull the long-term value of the dollar – not primarily because of cryptocurrencies, but due the country’s economic-political choices and China’s continued rise… Investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel recently wondered if not “Bitcoin should … be
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CoreLogic has released its final auction results for the weekend just gone with the final national clearance rate softening to 76.8%, down from the 79.9% preliminary clearance rate and also slightly lower than the 77.1% final clearance rate recorded in the prior weekend: It was the lowest weekly final auction clearance rate recorded in 2021;
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Some more updates on the little Chinese financial crisis roiling its bond and equity markets. Analysts had hoped that yesterday would being relief form the PBOC, no such luck: Stocks fell as the PBOC withdrew liquidity as for a fourth straight month: Funding costs in the junk bond market will keep rising, noted ANZ. Meanwhile,
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Some very important articles today point to the sticky wicket that Australia’s huge iron ore trade is now playing on. The first is Richard McGregor from the Lowy Institute: Chinese leaders have long probed Australian counterparts about what they would do to iron ore supply if it came to war with Taiwan. Australia lived to
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From SEEK: OVERVIEW OF MARCH 2021: STATE OF THE NATION: Highest number of job ads posted in a month in SEEK’s 23+ year history. Applications per ad at lowest level since 2012. SEEK job ads were up by 10.3% month-on-month (m/m). SEEK job ads were up 75.1% year-on-year (y/y). The top three industries contributing to
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The UN has condemned the Morrison Government neglect of stranded Aussies. It will probably mean the personality disorder PM does even less: The #UnitedNations Human Rights Committee has today ruled that Australia “facilitate and ensure” the return of #strandedaussies. We will keep fighting until these travel restrictions are lifted and their #HumanRights are respected. https://t.co/ev3CbwR1dm