EUR: Ifo Business Climate beats forecasts

The Ifo institute released the latest business climate index for Germany at 9am this morning. Markets were expecting the index to remain unchanged however this morning’s result exceeded expectations. Business Confidence in Germany increased to 93.30 points in...


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Sterling rises to help spring homebuyers

Firstly, a thank you to all who came along to Your Overseas Home, the international property show we help to organise. It’s good to see so many people determined to buy a property abroad this year. You can catch much of the content, such as webinars about visas and...


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USD: Dollar rises at tail end of poor week

The US dollar strengthened against most major currencies by between 0.5 and 1% yesterday, but not sufficiently to recover the losses from earlier in the week and it hits Friday some 1.5% adrift of EUR compared to last Friday. It was a quiet day for data, but the...


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