by Christopher Nye | Apr 17, 2019
The pound weakened slightly this morning on reports yesterday in the Guardian that Conservative-Labour talks have broken down, although Labour has denied the story. In positive news, UK employment figures showed a slight decrease on Tuesday by 27,000 to 1.34 million,...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 17, 2019
The pound is relatively stable this morning as markets await today’s inflation rate release, expected to come in within the Bank of England’s target figure of 2%. UK unemployment came in positively yesterday, although the pound did weaken slightly on reports of Brexit...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 17, 2019
We are in the final stage of compiling our currency forecasts for the months and year ahead. These are not our forecasts, I hasten to add, but an amalgation of forecasts from the leading banks. We don’t believe in making forecasts ourselves, and I’ll...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 16, 2019
Fears of a trade war between the US and EU have been growing in the past few weeks, but last night, EU leaders approved negotiating directives for US-EU trade talks, in another positive step forwards. Although France voted against, and Belgium used its option to...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 16, 2019
It’s a quiet day for the pound today, although comments by the German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, that Germany would not support further Brexit extensions after 31st October did cause a brief weakening. Today, the important release will be wage data, expected to...
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