The Australian and New Zealand dollars hit two-year lows on Friday. The Aussie fell 0.3% to $0.6796, while the kiwi slipped 0.1%. The dollar index stood at 105.100, not far below last month’s two-decade high. Sterling hit a two-week low of $1.1976 on Friday and is still hovering around that level. The dollar kept exchange … Read more
Brent crude falls $1.42, or 1.3%, to $111.70 a barrel by 0010 GMT after rebounding 2.8% on Friday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $106.08 a barrel, down 1.4%, following a 3.2% gain in the previous session. Oil costs slipped more than $1 a barrel on Monday as worldwide monetary worries discouraged the oil … Read more
This weekend Aussies across the country are expected to crowd stores both in-person and online for one of Australia’s largest and most anticipated shopping holidays, Black Friday. Data from Australia’s largest commercial bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), showed that Aussies had spent more than ever over the four-day holiday in both 2019 and … Read more
