Central banks are looking towards the renminbi to diversify their foreign currency holdings in a sign that geopolitical flare-ups could chip away at the dollar’s dominance. The proportion of central bank reserve managers that have invested in, or are interested in investing in, the renminbi increased to 85 per cent this year, from 81 per […]
Take a Sad Song reminds us that “Hey Jude” was an unusual sounding entry on AM radio in 1968. Obviously, The Beatles were the era’s great hitmakers, perhaps alone in their ability to take a seven-minute song to the top of charts, especially since four of those minutes was a coda that went “na, na, […]
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The Bank of America says the sterling “finds itself in an increasingly invidious position” for reasons including “increasingly challenging” Bank of England communication. The pound has fallen by 6.6 percent this year against the dollar, leaving the pound amongst the worst global performers against the greenback. One financial expert suggests the outlook for the pound […]
A market-wide plunge has seen more than $1.5 trillion wiped off the entire crypto market after analysts braced for a ‘crypto winter’, or cooling-off period after a stretch of digital currency fervour. Bitcoin, the world’s best-known cryptocurrency, is on the edge of an excruciating fall, according to some analysts, after its price sunk to its […]
Hong Kong’s central bank has intervened to strengthen the city’s currency and defend its US dollar peg for the first time since 2019, threatening to raise borrowing costs while the financial hub’s economy is still reeling from harsh Covid-19 restrictions. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced on Thursday that it had bought almost HK$1.6bn (US$202mn) […]
The surging dollar has prompted some analysts and investors to forecast a new period of “reverse currency wars” as many central banks abandon a longstanding preference for weaker exchange rates. The new dynamic marks a departure from the period of low inflation that followed the 2007-09 global financial crisis, when historically low interest rates and […]
A steep sell-off in Japan’s yen risks dividing policymakers in Tokyo on whether to embrace a weaker currency or push back against it, raising the stakes ahead of this week’s Bank of Japan meeting. The yen has tumbled more than 11 per cent in less than two months to hit a 20-year low of nearly […]
Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote of coins with fluctuating value in his 44 BCE essay on moral leadership. Centuries later, this briefest of mentions fueled a longstanding historical debate – one that’s just been answered by the coins themselves. “Historians have long debated what the statesman and scholar meant when he […]