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Australia extends rate pause to second month, currency drops
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Australia extends rate pause to second month, currency drops

The decision highlights the RBA’s more cautious approach to policy than the US Fed.

Bloomberg 01 Aug 2023
US growth accelerates to 2.4% on resilient consumers, companies
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US growth accelerates to 2.4% on resilient consumers, companies

The US economy is in better shape than economists had expected it would be.

Bloomberg 31 Jul 2023
Rich Russians isolated from the West are flocking to Thailand’s Phuket
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Rich Russians isolated from the West are flocking to Thailand’s Phuket

Russian businessman Alexander Nakhapetov has been a regular at the “banyas” in his adopted home of Phuket ever since several of the traditional steam baths opened last year.Lately, though, the 41-year-old’s routine has been disrupted by an influx of his countrymen to Thailand’s b...

Bloomberg 29 Jul 2023