by Jonathan Cook | Feb 17, 2026
After last month’s upturn in consumer sentiment, economists predict German consumers to be full of the joys of spring in February. Later this morning, the ZEW economic sentiment index is expected to reach its highest since the summer of 2021 as trade and government...
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by Jonathan Cook | Feb 17, 2026
65% of economists polled by Reuters expect the Bank of England to announce a quarter-point cut to interest rates at its next meeting. The big caveat to that is tomorrow’s inflation report, a study that looks likely to set the tone for the pound in the month ahead....
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by Jonathan Cook | Feb 17, 2026
The UK’s headline unemployment rate increased slightly to 5.2% in the three months to December, slightly exceeding market forecasts and marking the highest jobless rate in almost five years. Average earnings meanwhile fell to 4.2% (both when excluding and including...
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by Charles Purdy | Feb 16, 2026
The febrile atmosphere at Westminster calmed, somewhat, last week, leaving the pound treading water against the US dollar and euro. It looks like a currency waiting for a reason to pick a direction, and that may come soon. This is the week when economics comes back to...
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by Christopher Nye | Feb 16, 2026
America is having one of those public holidays that crop up at strange times, this time for George Washington’s birthday. The big event this week is the release of the minutes of the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee meeting on Wednesday, with the FOMC...
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