Market Update

Sterling rose above 1.21 against The USD & rose closer to 1.14 against The EUR after surprisingly better than expected PMI figures for The UK. Strong economical growth within the […]

Market Update

Yesterday we saw US PPI (producer price inflation) reach 0.7%, its highest level in 7 months.  We also had four speeches from Federal Reserve members commeting on the economic outlook for […]

Market Update

UK Wages continued to climb in the UK but failed to keep pace with inflation despite the largest rise outside of the COVID pandemic. Pay, excluding bonuses, increased at an […]

Market Update

The USD edged slightly higher against GBP overnight as The Fed Reserve’s meeting minutes seemed to point towards a continuation of their hawkish stance. The minutes indicated that the central […]

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The dollar fell this morning, losing out to commodities currencies like the Australian dollar and against the euro, which got a lift from a raft of data that suggested European […]

Market Update

UK inflation for November surprisingly dropped lower than expected, coming in at 10.7% from a 40 year high of over 11%, mainly due to a fall in fuel prices which […]

Market Update

Sterling gained against the dollar this morning as the safe-haven greenback fell against most currencies as market sentiment improved on hopes that China would ease its strict COVID-19 curbs. The […]

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The USD surged by over 2% against both EUR & GBP after The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a further 75 basis points last night, the fourth such rate […]

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Sterling slipped to a new two-week trough after Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey reiterated that the central bank would end its emergency bond-buying program on Friday and told pension […]

Market Update

The pound weakened for the fifth day in a row amid fresh signs of trouble in the UK government bond market that forced yet another intervention by the Bank of […]