USD: Dollar holds up

It was a broadly positive day for the US dollar, with gains against all but the yen and rupee. We’ve got some core inflation numbers this afternoon, and income and spending. Next week attention turns to the labour market, with JOLTs job openings and Non-Farm Payrolls....


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EUR: Euro shrugs off rate cut

After the excitement of the interest rate decision yesterday from the ECB, amid a mass of industrial and economic data, the euro remained remarkably steady. The data continues shortly though, with German unemployment and inflation numbers and then eurozone-wide...


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GBP: Sterling steady as BoE decision looms

Sterling has reached the end of the month around 1% down on the euro and 0.65% down on the US dollar, but having experienced wild swings through the month. We have just had a reading for house prices from the Nationwide, but there is nothing much for the markets to...


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Sterling at three-week high as ECB cuts again

Sterling at three-week high as ECB cuts again

The pound’s penultimate day of January was a mixed affair, with small losses and gains as the markets analysed a welter of data. Given the decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) to lower interest rates yet again – the fifth cut since last summer, and with another...


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USD: Watching growth and jobs

The same safe-haven forces that have marked 2025 swirled yesterday to boost the US dollar. A comparatively uneventful Fed event means that focus now turns to this afternoon’s GDP and initial jobless claims, which should combine to offer the dollar some direction....


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