by Christopher Nye | Feb 4, 2019
On Friday, the non-farm payrolls report from the US showed that US jobs growth was much stronger than expected in January. Despite the longest government shutdown in history, a whopping 304,000 jobs were created last month, up from a downwardly revised 222,000 in...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 1, 2019
Following the longest government shutdown in history, Trump is still looking for ways to secure funding to build a border wall. His demands for $5.7 billion are unlikely to be met, especially now that Democrats control Congress, but he is not giving up on what was one...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 1, 2019
If further evidence of the economic slowdown in the eurozone was required, then we received it yesterday, with the latest GDP growth rate figures from Italy confirming a technical recession. In the three months to December 2018, the Italian economy contracted by 0.2%,...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 1, 2019
The economic uncertainty that has become a hallmark of Brexit over the past two years continues to affect consumer confidence. In January, UK house prices posted their lowest annual growth rate since February 2013. Last month, prices were only 0.1% higher than they...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 1, 2019
Economies across the eurozone have been struggling for a while now and yesterday provided further evidence of its fall from grace, with Italy falling into recession once more. It is the third time in ten years that there has been a recession in Italy and it will be of...
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