This Month
ATO targets crypto traders’ tax affairs, bank details
The Tax Office is ramping up its surveillance of crypto traders, demanding that exchanges hand over details around clients’ ID, wallet addresses and bank accounts.
- Tom Richardson
April
Yen drops to a 34-year low; will authorities step in?
The steep sell-off in the Japanese currency to the lowest level since 1990.
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- Cormac Mullen
How Australians are unlocking their crypto riches
Surging valuations mean many want ways to borrow cash against their digital windfalls, and one altcoin evangelist claims he has a solution.
- Tom Richardson
‘Nothing has been spared’ as US dollar rips through Asia
The surprising strength of the US dollar this year has caused strategists to reduce their Aussie dollar forecasts, adding to the risk of sticky inflation.
- Alex Gluyas
Bitcoin ‘halving’ cuts supply of new tokens
The bitcoin halving could deal a potential blow to the companies that make money by ensuring that the digital currency functions smoothly and securely.
- David Pan
Aussie dips below US64¢ as Powell quashes rate cut hopes
The $A fell to its weakest since mid-November after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank needed more time to tame sticky inflation.
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- Joanne Tran and Cecile Lefort
The biggest market risk you’re probably not thinking about
Insight Investment’s Francesca Fornasari says investors cannot ignore currency markets, especially Australians who are sending billions of dollars overseas.
- Jonathan Shapiro
$A hit as strong US data dents rate cut hopes
The local currency is back below US65¢ after traders pushed back the likely timing of the first rate cut by the Federal Reserve and the Reserve Bank of Australia this year.
- Cecile Lefort
March
Bitcoin tops $US70,000 again after slumping on ETF outflows
The largest digital currency jumped more than 5 per cent after almost $1.4 billion was yanked from exchange-traded funds last week.
- David Pan
Pound’s worst week of the year is upending an $8.4 billion trade
The UK currency hit the skids after the Bank of England laid the groundwork for a shift to interest-rate cuts, torpedoing a view among traders that the central bank would take longer than its peers in Europe and the US to act.
- Naomi Tajitsu
Copper upstages iron ore’s influence on the Australian dollar
The base metal – which hit an 11-month high last week – is increasingly viewed as an indicator of economic growth, particularly in China.
- Cecile Lefort
