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On April 4, the Yangtze River Delta Railway ushered in the peak of passenger flow during the Qingming Festival. It is expected to send 4.1 million passengers today, 365,000 more than the same period last year, an increase of about 9.8%, and is expected to set a new record for single-day passenger volume. This years Qingming Festival railway transportation will start from April 3 to 7. The Yangtze River Delta Railway is expected to send 17.6 million passengers in 5 days, with an average daily passenger flow of 3.52 million, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%.The yield on the two-year U.S. Treasury note fell to a six-month low of 3.6550% and was last at 3.6611%.On April 4, local time on April 3, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. said that about 20% of the layoffs in the Department of Government Efficiency were wrong and needed to be corrected. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services laid off about 10,000 people on the 1st. Kennedy said that people who should not have been laid off were laid off, and the department is restoring their positions. Kennedy said that canceling the entire lead poisoning prevention and monitoring department of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was one of the mistakes. At present, it is unclear what other projects Kennedy may plan to restore.Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Will consider the impact of food costs on consumers.On April 4, local time on the 3rd, the automobile company Stellantis said that due to the impact of the US import automobile tariff policy, the company decided to lay off 900 employees in its five US factories and suspend production operations at two assembly plants in Canada and Mexico. Antonio Filosa, Chief Operating Officer of Stellantis Americas, said that the US factories that were laid off were powertrain and stamping parts factories, which produced spare parts for two assembly plants in Canada and Mexico. According to the plan, the assembly plant in Canada will stop production for two weeks, and the assembly plant in Toluca, Mexico will suspend production throughout April. Filosa said the company is "continuing to evaluate the medium- and long-term impact of tariffs on operations."

GBP/USD is Testing 1.3020 and is Under Pressure at the Hourly Resistance Level

Drake Hampton

Apr 22, 2022 09:55

GBP/USD is flat in Asia at 1.3029, pressured by an hourly barrier, and has traded in a narrow range between 1.3022 and 1.3035. However, the pound has been losing ground against a strong euro, while remaining relatively stable against the US dollar in the late afternoon on Wednesday.

 

Overnight, investors focused on hawkish comments from European Central Bank officials, which fueled speculation that the central bank will soon boost interest rates, sending the euro to a one-week high. It was also solid in anticipation of French President Emmanuel Macron's reelection victory on Sunday following yesterday's debate.

 

Joachim Nagel, president of Germany's Bundesbank, joined a chorus of experts in predicting an ECB rate hike in the third quarter. Meanwhile, traders have remained focused on the Bank of England's future monetary policy course.

 

The Bank of England modified its rhetoric last month on the necessity for additional interest rate hikes while emphasizing the economy's downside risks. Catherine Mann, a Bank of England monetary policymaker, provided an in-depth and counterbalancing assessment of the MPC's issues.

 

"The critical aspect was the need to combat inflation," analysts at Westpac said, adding that the latter was viewed as more worrying and exhibiting signs of spreading to pricing schemes (second-round effects), including front-loaded rate hikes. "While tightening may be reconsidered if demand deteriorates, the converse may also be true if the economy continues to perform well and inflation remains persistent.' By the end of 2022, money markets are pricing in 160 basis points of BoE rate hikes.

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