See the latest Australian dollar analysis here:
Record death tolls from coronavirus in the US is putting a dampener on risk spirits with most Asian stock markets in retreat or treading water as currency traders await tonight’s ECB meeting. Bitcoin is slowly deflating again, down below the $18400 level, while gold is trying to get back on track after its steep falls overnight, currently treading water at the $1840USD per ounce level:

The Shanghai Composite is starting to build some positive momentum going into the close, currently up 0.3% to 3383 points while in Hong Kong the Hang Seng Index has again gone the other way, down nearly 0.4% to 26405 points. Japanese stock markets are putting in scratch sessions with the Nikkei 225 finishing where it started while the USDJPY pair is again trying to push higher to get back above trailing ATR resistance at the 104.40 level:

The ASX200 was the worst in the region, down 0.6% to take back all of the previous session’s gain to finish back below the 6700 point level while the Australian dollar has lifted strongly again, almost matching its previous overnight high at the 74.70 level:

Eurostoxx and S&P futures are trying to push higher again with the four hourly chart of the S&P500 shows a weak attempt so far to clawback the losses from last night with momentum still negative:

The economic calendar includes the latest ECB meeting and interest rate decision, followed by the latest US CPI print and initial jobless claims.
- Macro Afternoon - February 19, 2021
- Macro Morning - February 19, 2021
- Macro Afternoon - February 18, 2021
So all you work from home mob – do you still get a christmas party?
Better than usual – the big one is off so we are having smaller ones – had ours this week. It was like stepping back in time – smaller lunch at a pub with people you are happy to chat to and no kumbaya fake BS from above. And we could even call it a Christmas lunch too!
Yep we got a smaller team lunch and a small christmas hamper that all staff got. All up the company spent the same on the xmas party by having a small hamper and small team lunches … it would be interesting to see whether staff see the value for money in what a regular xmas party costs ….
It’s the only day of the year out of the house! 🙂
https://youtu.be/44cicn1uSAI?t=12 😉
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😂
The real difficulty is working out what to wear when you haven’t been in the work clothes for 9 months and gained weight …
The fun thing is finding 50 in the pockets of your shirt …
Does racking up and feeling yourself up in the toilet count?
always
It’s Christmas every day!
thats why you don’t take down the tree
Winter is cumming
That’s what I’ll be doing at my christmas party
What is it that they used to say about getting a white Xmas?
only one sleep till christmas
Only if there is mistletoe involved.
Team only, list of rules and restrictions so not worth bothering.
Can’t stand my colleagues, let alone those idiotic managers. Thank god there is no christmas party this year.
I always go for free food and booze, not to socialise, second that stops being provided I’m out the door.
Chink chink
Does your family celebrate Christmas, mig? I’m guessing not.
What family? Those arseholes do. I’m not one of the. I don’t…
By arseholes I mean parents sisters uncles grandparents etc who never bothered to either understand or vaguely answer my questions.
Hate them.
Hate them.
I’m a shell of a human because of it
stupid ACCADACCA fn
Nope. My company gave each employee $30 to use as a voucher or donate to charity. I donated my $30 to Soldier On.
My team will have a few beers at the pub, which suits me fine as I don’t really enjoy the regular Christmas Party
Humans 1 biomass 0!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9035039/Earth-home-man-items-life.html
Limestone = shellfish = sand = former biomass.
thats why the sea is salty, because of all the fish sweat
But doesn’t explain my step mum
Oh, wait….
Havagogetago!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9037525/Schoolgirl-17-rakes-staggering-12million-sale-seven-bedroom-mansion.html
I mean – that’s not dodgy at all is it? I mean an international students gotta have a roof over their head even though we have a functioning rental market in this country …..
I showed my 16 year old son that article and told him he has one year to get his act together.
Is he selling drugs yet?
He started by selling p*ssy … tomorrow, he’s got someone to pay for the pooch too…
If he read the article he would be pushing the expectation back to you.
is it existing property or brand new built?
The sparkle in your eyes
Keeps me alive
I. Don’t. Know. Your. F#@%^. Name.
So what? Let’s Reusa up
To die unsung would really bring you down
I knew it wasn’t “Wokeness” that had all of these Plutocrats embracing unfettered mass immigration.
Here is the proof,
“Leaked internal documents from Amazon-owned Whole Foods reveal the company rates their stores using a “diversity index” and determined the threat of unionization is “higher” at stores with “lower diversity.”
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61403
Does that mean Stewie might have a point?
It was Stewie that put me onto that link,
https://twitter.com/StewyGripes/status/1336803228575358977?s=19
Yes.
Haha yes brother.
Culture matters.
The threat of unionization…
Threat.
Those uppity humans! Thinking they can have a better life! Lollll
So imagine the result when the unions and the workers party embrace diversity.
You mean 40 years ago?
Melbourne
Trace for each FX Major since March bottom.
https://imgur.com/a/aRTZ0iI
Cryptonic
I’m way late to that party. But I’m starting to wonder which is the real exit…… Thx.
I like that chart. It gives me ideas.
Pretty good for determining strongest Vs weakest horse for fastest ride…… & who’s reacting to whom. Rebasing start off an obvious swing point gives the clearest piccie – not always as clear if they haven’t all zagged at the same time like they did in March. But, still instructive…..
P0rn0 for Pyrotes
My friends says
We’re doing ourselves in
Much faster
Than the dinosaurs ever did…
We’ll make great pests
only if that were true
the elites have us as pets
fuel and release!
I’m a loser position so I can fight everyone. A couple of months ago I walked into Bourke st copshop, knelt on the ground, put my hands behind my head and asked them to shoot me in the head.
All it got me was strapped to gurney in Royal Melbourne ED waiting for a psych eval nurse who laughed.
Thanks Andews. Thanks everyone. Thanks for cumming
On the drugs again tonight or another manic episode? Either way, take it easy
Either way, I’m trippin on some sh#t.
U herd?
Solar flares bro. They be gettin evry nicca wack right now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/08/solar-storms-sunspots-aurora/
You sun boy?
No, but I miss him. It seems like you do to.
So, apparently Scotty The Impaler sent the Strayan people his prayers today. I’ll pass, on my gift from him.
Missus has gone out and left a few bits and bobs for dinner. Including some Woolworths “Bake at Home” Multigrain rolls……………… I checked the baking guide and then noticed where they were made…… ffs …. Made in France. I suppose that’s 10000% better than “Made in China” but surely they can source Aussie bread rolls.
The bloody carbon footprint just to bring them over must be huuuuugeeee.
But French are better at baking than us, just ask them
But we are gold standard for baking housing prices?
We’re pretty good cooks too apparently; of the meth variety.
Canadia is trying to give us a go but we’re no.1, yay…..
I forgot to add my recent discovery – Cadbury freddo biscuits – made in Poland!!!!
Careful with polishing them poles …
coles got reamed about locally / freshly made bread….dough flown in from ireland iirc.
now advertised as freshly BAKED..still flying it in.
Germany…….take out the shutdown hiatus and the slope is a typical recessionary one………there is a lot more market risk to be transferred to currencies yet
https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1336930648678780928
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-10/warning-rio-tinto-could-face-250m-juukan-gorge-compensation-bill/12969948
hehehehe. good luck putting that back together again.
Did the directors/execs who walked over this, get payouts?
They should be made to do community service at a remote aboriginal community. Better to learn from real life than do one of those mickey mouse cultural sensitivity online courses that seem to be all the rage with big corporates these days.
Even my darkie mates hate those courses.
As far as I can tell Gunnamatta is still waiting to see his wife and daughter.
Go at me all you want but what’s wrong with this picture?
My sister is stuck in Europe. $6k for a flight from UK 1 way + $4k odd to voluntarily imprison herself in quarantine for 2 weeks. She’s decided to stay in the UK and since she has an Irish passport is entitled to the NHS.. go figure. Bloody sponge she is..
Unbelievable. Well…believable just not most liveable o0
She’s channelling ScoMo: she had a go and she got a go?
She needs to apply as a foreign student.
Or a fruit picking back-packer
I actually don’t think she wants to come back yet either way. So it’s just another excuse she can give the folks for staying put.
This is what’s wrong Phucking Phil Honeywood and his merry migration rorters – https://twitter.com/IEAAustralia/status/1336831755651870720
https://youtu.be/Anovc9TAeRI
Indians ripping off Indians and saying can’t imagine this happening in Straya!
Ok not all of them are Indians but the “thanks brother” to a female made me laugh..
Can’t imagine it in Australia!!!!
Maybe they should stop voting for parties that support immigration …. oh wait …
Rate my jacket you cheap [email protected]^q#s
Put a better pic on twitter
Rate my rapping! 🤣ðŸ˜
Thom Browne – look that dope sh#t up
Looks like Ermo down at the Lodge
Aight
Hustler
Word he pulled the Pres
Game long,
Grit my court
Spray that every
Challenge gone,
Got Rudi got
Bang!
Another Sars-Cov-2
Drop
Why do I get visions of the MB Christmas party?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GUisuU6xzo
Dot
that would be you anbd peachy trying to get skip to take his medicine?
The more you know..
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/aussies-urged-to-boycott-41-vineyards-actually-owned-by-chinese-firms/news-story/c7cd6724a093e37cc7b51bce1b3a8c58
Don’t see a list of 41 vineyards in that link? Have I had too much rice wine or is there no list?
List is gone Facebook post removed. Probably because deemed racialist. Haja
cached page somewhere you think?
NSW hotel quarantine is still completely screwed up.
Just had a chat with my friend who works at Qantas, and is now working at a COVID-19 hotel. He worked at a floor where people who tested positive to COVID-19 is staying, but didn’t know about it until afterward. @[email protected] W.T.F.???
While it is a good thing they have surveillance cameras everywhere, it is a bad thing that people who have very little trainings are working on ‘hot floors’. It should be the nurses doing the actual delivery of the food trays in full PPE : everyone else should stop at the edge of the elevators. Only trained professionals should be working on an infected floor.
Anyone who uses public transport in Sydney, please wear a mask, because he certainly didn’t. >_<