Forex Today: US Stocks, Bitcoin Hit Multi-Month Highs

A Reuters poll shows that the Bank of England is expected to make a 0.50% rate hike at its next meeting, before reverting to further smaller hikes of 0.25%.Daily new coronavirus cases globally dropped last week for the fourth consecutive week.It is estimated that 67.4% of the world’s population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccination, while approximately 7.5% of the global population is confirmed to have contracted the virus at some time, although the true number is highly likely to be much larger. Total confirmed new coronavirus cases worldwide stand at over 595.3 million with an average case fatality rate of 1.08%. The rate of new coronavirus infections appears to now be most significantly increasing in Barbados, Chile, South Korea, The Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Serbia, Trinidad, and Tonga.