by Christopher Nye | Oct 24, 2025
Sterling has come through this period of data relatively unscathed against the euro – possibly only saved by the euro’s own global decline. PMI will be the last of the big data items to come through this month, but then attention will switch to the Bank’s interest...
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by Charles Purdy | Oct 24, 2025
After a set of data that suggested that the UK economy was in a downward spiral, this morning there were signs that that message has not yet got through to shoppers. Retail sales in the UK increased by 0.5% in September – far ahead of a predicted decline – while the...
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by Jonathan Cook | Oct 23, 2025
Donald Trump’s White House has been a staunch supporter of Argentina’s Javier Milei. Along with the funding injection, Trump recently agreed to import more Argentine beef – a move that angered American farmers, who until recently had been suffering from a funding...
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by Jonathan Cook | Oct 23, 2025
Heists are back in style. First in Paris, but now evidently in Greece, where police arrested dozens of people accused of accessing EU agriculture funds by posing as farmers. Police said that they had successfully stolen almost €20 million euros, with the sting part of...
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by Jonathan Cook | Oct 23, 2025
Wednesday was one of those odd days where good news for the UK economy meant bad news for the pound. Sterling would recover from its early stumble, but there is no mistaking the change in tone within markets. To many, rate cuts are back on the menu, presenting the...
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