USD: Dollar weaker ahead of jobs report

The ‘safe-haven’ demand for the US dollar decreased yesterday and is still low this morning due to positive news about the US economy. Private payrolls increased by 2.369 million jobs last month, whilst the ISM Manufacturing PMI jumped to 52.6 in June of 2020 from...


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EUR: EU unveils ‘safe list’

The euro is stronger against the pound and the dollar this morning, after weakening slightly yesterday due to sterling and greenback movements. The European Union has excluded the US from its initial ‘safe list’ of countries from which the bloc allows non-essential...


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Markets look to US jobs report

Sterling strengthened slightly yesterday after a promising data release, which indicated that the economy may be starting to mend after enduring coronavirus-related disruption. This morning, the pound is still stronger against the dollar. The US also received some...


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Six months until we leave Europe

There have been mixed signals regarding both the Covid crisis in the UK and the economy in recent days. One graph – British cases of Covid-19 and fatalities from it – appears to have stopped falling and levelled out at a rate far above our European neighbours. On the...


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