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The dollar fell against major peers on Tuesday as China set the official yuan exchange rate at the strongest since abandoning its peg in 2005, which helped support demand for other units. The Australian dollar led gains in major currencies.

Stock futures nudged higher in early morning trading on Tuesday after the S&P 500 suffered its first decline to start a year since 2016. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 85 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100.

Britain formally left the European Union’s trade bloc on Dec. 31, marking a new era for the U.K.-EU relationship. After months of wrangling, new rules for trade were finally agreed just days before the year-end deadline. But in a document.

The New York Stock Exchange said it no longer plans to delist three Chinese telecommunications giants. In a late Monday statement, the NYSE said it dropped the plans after “further consultation with relevant regulatory authorities in connection with Office of.

It is a common perception that the pandemic has disrupted market fundamentals. Investors continue to buy shares of companies that are more than overpriced as if nothing had happened, multiplying their gains. This trend is now reinvigorated at the start.

With XRP plunging in value following a wave of exchange delistings and trading suspensions, Ripple Labs issued a statement Tuesday vowing to respond to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegations against the company. The statement opens with the.

Bitcoin (BTC) returned to hitting records on Dec. 30 after a fresh rebound took it above its $28,400 all-time high. Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView showed BTC/USD tackle its existing historic top during trading on Wednesday. In a strong.

British house prices rose faster than expected in December to record their biggest annual increase in six years, as tax incentives and COVID-driven appetite for larger homes continued to boost demand, mortgage lender Nationwide said. House prices rose by 0.8%.

Oil gained ground on Wednesday as a U.S. coronavirus fiscal aid package and a decline in crude oil inventories lifted prices. Brent crude futures rose 35 cents, or 0.7%, to $51.44 a barrel by 0803 GMT and U.S. West Texas.

Asian shares hit a record high on Wednesday with investors betting on a strong economic recovery next year, as there is little sign policymakers wind back massive stimulus efforts aimed at staving off coronavirus-fuelled downturns. MSCI’s gauge of Asia-Pacific shares.

China’s National Bureau of Statistics revised the national growth rate for 2019 lower on Wednesday with major cuts in the manufacturing sector. The downward adjustment gives the country a lower base from which to report growth for 2020. GDP last.

China’s IPO market is set to keep booming next year even after a blockbuster 2020, according to the chief investment officer of a Chinese financial services firm. It has been a “very exciting” year for China’s domestic stock market, William.