EUR: Boost for homebuyers

Good news for anyone looking to buy a holiday home in Europe. European house prices fell in the final months of last year, but it was not an even shift. Prices fell in Northern and Central European nations while climbing in parts of the South, so you might want to...


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GBP: Services slowdown

The UK’s dominant services sector can’t be expected to carry the team all the time. The S&P services PMI dipped slightly in March, as did the composite index. The slowdown will be a worry for the wider economy, but the UK may need to look to broaden its economic...


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Markets rally as data affirms Fed outlook

The pound cemented Wednesday’s gains against the US dollar yesterday and GBP/USD climbed to its highest level in around two weeks. Sterling found less traction against the euro, which also gained on the dollar by around 0.35%. Wednesday’s US services PMI data...


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USD: Private sector booms

The US private sector gained the highest number of jobs since July in March, signalling a booming labour landscape. 184,000 jobs were added in all, but most worrying of all for the Fed may be the fact that wage growth for job-changers rose from 7.6% in February to 10%...


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EUR: Inflation backs off

The eurozone had started to feel a little bit antsy about resurgent inflation. After climbing the past few months, news that both headline and core CPI fell in March will be good news for policymakers, who had been clogging up the airwaves with warnings about renewed...


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