EUR: Euro benefits from pound’s weakness

The euro is currently benefiting from the pound’s weakness, as the markets await industrial production figures later this morning, which are expected to show a significant further drop. Philip Lane and Luis de Guindos are expected to speak this evening and the markets...


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GBP: GDP enters negative territory

UK GDP shrank by 2% compared to the previous quarter, figures released this morning show. Representing a yearly fall of 1.6%, it is not good news for the economy, but, in a small glimmer of positivity, is not as much of a drop as expected. Nonetheless, the pound has...


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British GDP shrinks by 2%

The pound is down this morning after figures showed the UK’s GDP to be in contraction – albeit at a slightly slower rate than forecast. The prospect of negative interest rates is raising uneasiness on both sides of the Atlantic, after some claimed that the Bank of...


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Pound under pressure as lockdown eases

The good news this morning is that – in England anyway – all sorts of new freedoms are available to us. That includes being able to buy and sell property. Those of us traveling to France won’t need to go into quarantine when the borders are open. As yet the...


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USD: US dollar benefits from safe-haven status

The dollar is up against the pound, benefitting again from its status as a safe-haven currency. Trade tensions with China appear to be easing again, and there is some positivity around the economic impact of loosening lockdown. Today, we will see inflation figures,...


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