Turning the Mill With Carried Water

This week’s inflation data was in line with Westpac’s expectations. But what matters is whether the RBA was surprised. We do not think it was, and note that despite personnel changes, the RBA’s analysis and strategy have not changed. This week’s inflation data were not a surprise to the Westpac Economics team and so did […]

Analysing the long-term BTC/USD chart on 16th May, we created a “roadmap” for Bitcoin’s price, which looked like an expanding fan and consisted of a median line with support levels below it and resistance levels above it. Today, when analysing the BTC/USD chart, we will remove the fan lines to shift the focus to Bitcoin’s […]

The USD/JPY pair stabilised around 151.35 by Tuesday, not far from its recent peaks, as the weakness of the Japanese yen has prompted verbal interventions from Japanese authorities. Japan’s Finance Minister, Shunichi Suzuki, mentioned that measures to normalise the yen are quite likely. He cited excessive volatility as increasing uncertainty for the country’s trading partners […]