FOREX-Aussie jumps on RBA hike, U.S. dollar steady

Two-year Treasury yields, which are extremely sensitive to monetary policy expectations, rose about 3.5 basis points (bps) to around 4.55%.

The 10-year yield edged up to 3.749% after tumbling 7 bps overnight.

There has been a downfall previously when in June 2011 it reached a high of $31.91 and then the prices slashed by more than 93% in November 2011 hitting $1.99. It reached an all-time high in December 2017 hitting $19,783 and after the bubble burst the prices slashed by more than 50%.

Investor sentiment has broadly improved with US lawmakers agreeing on a compromise fiscal package to avert a debt default and financial shares stabilizing following the failure of several regional banks earlier in the year.

Bitcoin and ether are still down about 4.5% and 8% respectively since the first SEC lawsuit was filed a week ago, though, indicating investors are still jittery about crypto.

LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) – The first six months of 2023 have been eventful for financial markets – from an artificial intelligence (AI) inspired tech stock surge, commodity market capitulations, cryptocurrency comebacks to the worst banking crash since Lehman Brothers.

“The cash rate is now 4.1%, which we think is in a deeply restrictive territory, so that obviously means that the risk of a hard landing in the Australian economy has increased,” said Carol Kong, a currency strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

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(Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)

Coinbase did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

It had disclosed in March that it received a ‘Wells notice’ from the SEC threatening a potential lawsuit over certain products.

“We’re all worried about liquidity,” said Ben Jones, director of macro research at Invesco.

The Fed, he added, “still wants to tighten” policy and therefore may allow the TGA rebuild to drain liquidity from markets without stepping in to provide other support tools.

The lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase Global have increased fears the crypto market’s ordeal could be prolonged further after the sector was battered by a string of meltdowns including the bankruptcy of FTX, Binance’s biggest competitor, last year.

Licensed firms, however, are subject to more onerous rules in areas including corporate governance, IT and compliance. A slew of crypto firms, including the world’s biggest exchange Binance, have already registered with the AMF.

Crude oil edged higher but gains were tempered by a report that the United States and main site Iran were close to a nuclear deal, although denials from both parties kept it off the previous session’s lows.

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Societe Generale’s crypto unit, Forge, is licensed as of Tuesday to offer services, including crypto custody, trading and sales, according to the website of France’s AMF market regulator.

The news was first reported by crypto outlet CoinDesk.

Last week, Binance was sued by the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission, which listed 13 charges against the company, Zhao and the operator of its purportedly independent U.S.

Over 50 cryptocurrencies worth over $100 billion in total and making up about 10% of the overall market, are now viewed by the SEC watchdog as securities, according to CCData. It’s big.

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After surprise rate hikes in Australia and Canada, and as the Federal Reserve forecasts two more hikes, investors are now betting that interest rates will remain higher for longer.

Cryptocurrencies have staged a gradual recovery so far this year, after prices fell sharply last year and a series of bankruptcies at major crypto firms, including crypto exchange FTX, left investors with heavy losses.