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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by Christopher Nye | Apr 16, 2019
Euro weakened slightly against the pound and dollar yesterday evening, but has otherwise had a stable few days. Today, we will see the ZEW economic sentiment index for April, expected to come in worse than the previous month, from -2.5 to -7. It’s a sign of the...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 16, 2019
There have been positive signs on US trade talks with both the EU and China, with EU leaders agreeing last night to negotiating directives for their trade talks. It could well be that the spectre of a US-EU trade war will remain just that, although there are still...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 15, 2019
The dollar weakened slightly over the weekend against the pound and euro, as Donald Trump attacked the Federal Reserve on Twitter, saying ‘If the Fed had done its job properly, which it has not, the Stock Market would have been up 5000 to 10,000 additional points, and...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 15, 2019
The euro strengthened this weekend against the pound and dollar, after a week with some mixed economic releases and fears of a US-EU trade war. The latter have been put a little on hold as the two announced they would progress with trade talks at the end of last week....
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