by Christopher Nye | Mar 2, 2020
Sterling ended the week down against the euro on Friday and is still low this morning, after heightened fears over coronavirus gave top UK shares their worst week since the financial crisis, and France warned that the EU would not stick to ‘artificial deadlines’ in...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 28, 2020
The dollar weakened yesterday as expectations of an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve increased, due to the fact that the number of coronavirus cases are growing faster outside of China than inside. The US had its first unexplained case of coronavirus this...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 28, 2020
The euro hit almost a month’s high earlier yesterday, after the UK revealed that it would contemplate returning to WTO terms if a broad outline of a deal had not been agreed by June. In a less positive sign, French GDP growth figures entered negative figures...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 28, 2020
The pound fell to a three-week low yesterday as the UK released their negotiating mandate for UK-EU trade talks. British officials confirmed their hard-line stance, saying that the government will walk away from trade talks in June unless there’s a ‘broad outline’ of...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 28, 2020
The UK has released its trade talk mandate, with Michael Gove telling Parliament that the Government could walk away from negotiations in June if there is not a broad outline of a deal by then. Likewise, continued uncertainty over the line Rishi Sunak will take...
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