Currency Note Archive

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Currency rates fluctuate by the second and can change by up to 10% in the space of a year. On a typical overseas money transfer, that's the difference between completing on budget and needing pay thousands more. Our daily notes keep you informed on every move in GBP, EUR and USD, so you can make confident decisions about when to lock in your rate.

GBP 2 Feb 2023 by Christopher Nye

GBP: BoE to decide on interest

In its last meeting, the Bank of England voted by a majority of 6-3 to raise interest rates by 50 basis points to 3.5%, which pushed borrowing costs to their highest level since late-2008.

2 Feb 2023 by Christopher Nye

All eyes on BoE and ECB for latest interest rates

Sterling weakened against a handful of currencies yesterday including the euro and australian dollar. GBP/AUD was pushed lower by the UK’s latest PMI data which revealed signs of poor performance in the UK’s manufacturing sector.

USD 1 Feb 2023 by Christopher Nye

USD: ISM manufacturing employment to edge down

On Tuesday market watchers digested several economic data releases including the US employment cost index and Chicago PMI. Today, all eyes will be on the latest manufacturing employment subindex from the ISM.

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EUR 1 Feb 2023 by Christopher Nye

EUR: Spain’s Manufacturing PMI rises

This morning, Spain's index rose to 48.4 pointing to a seventh successive monthly contraction in the country's manufacturing sector. It also indicates the softest since decline last September.

GBP 1 Feb 2023 by Christopher Nye

GBP: Nationwide housing prices fall

Following yesterday’s mortgage lending and approvals, markets have just seen the latest Nationwide housing prices year-on-year and month-on-month.

1 Feb 2023 by Christopher Nye

Sterling takes a hit following IMF’s gloomy outlook

Sterling weakened against both the euro and US dollar yesterday following a bleak economic outlook from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and warnings of recession.

1 Feb 2023 by Charles Purdy

Markets await Bank decisions, but you don’t have to

There is an alphabet soup of data this week, with GDP and PMI, dire warnings from the IMF and interest rate decisions from the BoE, ECB and FOMC. To make sense of it all, why not download our…

USD 31 Jan 2023 by Christopher Nye

USD: JOLTs to increase tomorrow

Tomorrow the big data release to watch will be the latest United States job openings. In the previous data, the number of job openings in America decreased slightly by 54,000 to 10.5m.

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