by Christopher Nye | Nov 20, 2019
The pound has moved slightly lower this morning following yesterday’s televised election debate. There were no real surprises from either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn and polls show that the public were evenly split over who won the debate. Eurozone...
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by Christopher Nye | Nov 20, 2019
Did you enjoy the TV election debate last night? Yesterday the pound drifted away from the six-month high it was enjoying at the start of the week, but only fractionally. We know that the pound has been moving higher as the likelihood of a decisive Conservative...
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by Christopher Nye | Nov 19, 2019
The dollar weakened yesterday as reports on the progress of US-China trade talks cast doubts over whether a phase one deal will be reached. A report suggested that there is pessimism in Beijing due to President Trump’s reluctance to roll back tariffs on Chinese...
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by Christopher Nye | Nov 19, 2019
Sterling strengthened to a new six-month high yesterday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to deliver Brexit on time at the annual CBI conference. He also set out plans to put corporation tax cuts on hold and said that the money would be spent on public services....
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by Christopher Nye | Nov 19, 2019
On a quiet day for economic data, the focus in the Eurozone has been on a series of speeches, with the ECB’s Philip Lane telling a conference yesterday that the ECB is ‘not at a limit as of yet’ in regards to monetary policy. He seemed to call for further policy...
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