by Christopher Nye | Sep 3, 2018
On Friday, the Gfk consumer confidence index in the UK climbed 3 points to -7 in August. This was better than the -10 the markets had been expecting, which is some welcome positive news. It was a fairly quiet day for sterling, as it continued to hover around the $1.30...
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by Christopher Nye | Sep 3, 2018
The headline release from the eurozone in Friday was the flash inflation rate for August. It is expected that it will ease to 2% in August, lower than the 2.1% that the markets had expected. We also saw the unemployment rate come in at 8.2% in July, which was the same...
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by Christopher Nye | Sep 3, 2018
Trump caused further controversy on Friday by threatening to withdraw from the World Trade Organization (WTO). In an interview with Bloomberg, the president said the US will quit the WTO if they don’t shape up. Quite what he means by this is currently anybody’s guess,...
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by Ricky Bean | Jun 7, 2018
On a day where footage emerged showing that Trump was unable to remember the words to ‘God Bless America’ at a patriotic event he had commissioned, the US’s trade balance for April beat forecast. It had been expected to show a $49 billion deficit, but it actually...
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by Ricky Bean | Jun 7, 2018
What a difference a few days can make to the economic climate of an area! Since the turn of the year, the eurozone’s economic data releases have been faintly underwhelming and built a picture that appeared at odds with the European Central Bank’s economic projections....
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