Worldwide coronavirus cases surpass 104.3 million with over 2,261,000 official deaths.
US Equity markets continue to register record levels with the DOW and Nasdaq both up over 1.5% overnight.
The US Senate has voted in favour of moving ahead with his 1.9T coronavirus relief stimulus plan.
The RBNZ are no longer interested in cutting rates this year after a bumper unemployment read of 4.9% unemployment earlier today.
The Reserve Bank of Australia have raised their bond buying program by 100B but made comment the Australian economy is well underway to recovering earlier than predicted.
AstraZeneca vaccines are showing an 82.4% efficacy rate after a 3 month gap between jabs.
Major Announcements last week:
Australian CPI q/q came in at 0.9% from the 0.7% predicted
The US Federal Reserve left rates unchanged at 0-0.25%
US Advanced GDP released at 4.0% from 4.2% predicted
German prelim GDP q/q released at 0.1% much lower than the September quarter 8.2%
US Manufacturing Index printed at 58.7 remaining firm