by Christopher Nye | Apr 18, 2019
Sterling is on a slight upward tick this morning following a relatively positive week. Although inflation came in just below expectations, it only had a small dip that it soon regained. The retail price index also came in below forecasts, but it seems that the markets...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 17, 2019
Strong Chinese economic data, including GDP growth and industrial production, caused the dollar to weaken briefly against a basket of currencies this morning. The dollar has also weakened slightly against the pound yesterday on lower-than-expected industrial...
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by Christopher Nye | Apr 17, 2019
German economic sentiment beat expectations yesterday noon, as the figures released showed not the expected 0.8, but a climb to 3.1 points. This puts the figures into the positive for the first time since March 2018. The wider Eurozone economic sentiment index also...
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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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