Forex news for Asia trading on
Thursday
24
June 2021
Major forex was little changed
during the session here in Asia. Major
currencies have tracked narrowly sideways, the CHF has weakened a few
points
The
only news of note was on US infrastructure negotiations. A bipartisan
group of senators say they have reached an agreement on a ‘framework’
for a deal, with more
than 500bn
USD in new spending. They have a scheduled meeting at the White
House on Thursday with US President Biden. I’d be wary of reading
too much into this; its not bad news, but perhaps White House press
secretary Jen Psaki’s response sums up the tentative proposal:
- “The
group made progress towards an outline of a potential agreement.”
That’s
about as vague as you can get without it being a complete blow off.
House
leader Pelosi and Senate leader Schumer have not given their ticks of
approval, saying they would like to see details before doing so. Note
that the US Senate shuts for a
two-week break at the end
of this week, and thus its difficult to see any firm deal being
agreed to by then.
There
was no other news of note.
On the central bank front the People’s Bank of China injected funds into the banking system today for the first time since March (see the yuan mid setting post if you’d like details). The Bank of Korea indicated it begin policy normalisation this year (that is, wind back on the easing taps).
Bitcoin has dribbled a little lower: