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Bitcoin’s market share neared 60%, hitting its highest level since April 2021, while altcoins were muted in the last 24 hours.
Companies including Amazon.com Inc and Woodside Energy Group Ltd announced projects in Mexico totalling about US$20 billion (RM86.06 billion), a victory for President Claudia Sheinbaum as she seeks to attract investment from wary business leaders.
Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Woodside plans to invest US$10.4 billion to develop a deepwater project with state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos in the Gulf of Mexico. Amazon will spend US$6 billion through 2026 to strengthen its network and digital capacity in the country, he said.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd is planning a US$1.5 billion tourist project in the Quintana Roo state, Ebrard said at a news conference after a meeting of the US-Mexico CEO Dialogue on Tuesday.
Addressing the leaders of about 240 Mexican and foreign companies, Sheinbaum sought to downplay concerns that a series of constitutional reforms will diminish democracy and judicial independence in the country, the largest trading partner of the US.
Among those reforms are a judicial overhaul approved last month in Congress to elect federal judges by popular vote and an energy bill to give state-owned companies priority over private firms in energy generation and power transmission. Critics have said the judicial changes make investment in Mexico riskier because control of the courts is likely to go to Sheinbaum’s popular Morena party.
“The president doesn’t want to control the judiciary,” Sheinbaum said. “What we want is to have a judiciary free of corruption.”
Sheinbaum also said that, although the government wants to control 54% of energy generation and transmission in Mexico, there will be clear rules for private investment in the remaining 46%. During the CEO meeting, the government created working groups with companies to address energy projects.
The government will have its energy plan ready by the end of the year, Sheinbaum said. A set of rules known as secondary laws will define the participation process of private companies in energy projects.
After listening to businesses concerns, the government will create a digital transformation agency to reduce red tape and help companies with investment projects, Sheinbaum said.
The North American free-trade pact known as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or the USMCA, must be strengthened so that the three countries complement each other rather than compete with each other, she said.
Pedro Sanchez is facing the biggest corruption scandal in his six years as Spanish prime minister, raising questions about how long he’ll be able to maintain his grip on power.
At the centre of his problems is a report by Spain’s most important security force, the Civil Guard, that alleges a criminal network was operating inside the transportation ministry in 2020 and 2021, when it was run by one of Sanchez’s closest allies, Jose Luis Abalos. Abalos was a top party official and then transport minister under Sanchez, but he was kicked out of the party caucus earlier this year as a result of the probe.
The alleged racket funnelled cash from public coffers into different businesses, according to an 87-page report by the Civil Guard that was seen by Bloomberg News. The probe was first made public by newspaper El Mundo last week.
The Spanish press has also reported that public money was used to pay a stipend to a woman who had a relationship with Abalos — although he has said no money was involved in the relationship. Abalos himself has not been accused of any wrongdoing. He did not respond to text and voice messages seeking comment.
The graft allegations touching Sanchez’s inner circle have put the prime minister up against the ropes, with the opposition People’s Party, the largest group in parliament, filing a criminal complaint against his party on Monday (Oct 14).
Sanchez was already on the backfoot over his wife’s business dealings. Begona Gomez is being investigated for possible influence peddling over her relationship with two universities. Sanchez has said his wife has done nothing wrong and the probe is politically motivated.
In April, the pressure on his wife prompted Sanchez to step back from his duties for five days to consider his future before ultimately deciding to continue.
Corruption is a particularly sensitive issue for Sanchez because he came to power in 2018 by denouncing the graft in the PP government under his predecessor Mariano Rajoy.
The 52-year-old Socialist has survived in power since then at the head of a series of increasingly perilous coalitions and currently needs the backing of at least eight different parties to pass legislation.
Despite consistently polling behind the PP for the past two years, Sanchez has become a master of navigating the ideological divisions driven by Catalonia’s failed push for independence in 2017.
For example, the five lawmakers from the Basque Nationalist group PNV are sympathetic to the PP’s pro-business agenda and could topple Sanchez if they chose to align with the opposition. But any alternative majority would have to include the far-right group Vox and that would be extremely uncomfortable for the PNV because of Vox’s vehemently nationalist agenda.
What’s more, Sanchez’s Socialists have cut deals to help the PNV govern in the Basque region and several major cities, so pulling its support for Sanchez would put its own power base at risk. The Catalan separatists of Junts are also closer to the PP in terms of their economic philosophy but would also struggle to line up alongside Vox.
Meanwhile, among the plethora of small left-wing groups that support Sanchez — which include the government’s junior coalition partner Sumar — concerns over the premier’s future are limited, according to two people familiar with the situation. At this stage, no charges have been filed and it seems limited to a specific ministry, said one person. Left-wing voters are far more focused on issues such as affordable housing and are paying little attention to corruption, said another.
The UK unemployment rate fell to 4.0% in August, the lowest since January, and went down from a peak of 4.4% in April and May. The data beat expectations and supported Sterling buying from intraday lows below 1.3040. Employment figures have been gaining momentum in recent months, with 373K more jobs created in July and August than in the previous three months.
However, the situation is not so rosy when looking at the figures in a broader context. Firstly, the ONS publishes its preliminary estimates for September, which show a fall of 15k in the number of people in work. Second, the number of people claiming unemployment benefits rose by 27.9K in September, bringing the total over the past six months to almost 225K. Thirdly, job vacancies fell by 34K in the three months to September, confirming the cooling of the labour market.
The continued slowdown in wage growth is also worrying. They were 3.8% higher in the three months to August than in the same period a year earlier. Excluding bonuses, the increase was 4.9%. This is above the 2.2% inflation rate but builds on a slowing trend that has been in place since the middle of last year.
The markets seem to have used the new data to take profits from the previous decline in the GBPUSD. The pair has gained 0.2% since the start of the day and has climbed to the 1.3080 level, last Thursday’s high. Technically, there are no significant obstacles to the upside until the 1.3115 area, which is the 50-day moving average and the area of the previous consolidation in early October.
In a more bullish scenario for the Pound, a full-blown corrective bounce could develop into the 1.3120-1.3180 area, but further gains will require more than a portfolio shake-up—a more global shift in sentiment is needed..
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