Market Update

The Pound suffered this morning, trading narrowly lower against the USD as an upbeat market mood was offset by UK recession woes. The Pound gained slightly on Monday despite a […]

Market Update

As the first full week of the month fets into full swing- we have a pretty quiet Monday with it being Labor day in the U.S- the only key release […]

Market Update

Inflation is the main talking point today with Euro-Zone inflation due out at 10am this morning. Yesterday Germany released their August Inflation figures, with a slight decline from 6.2% in […]

Market Update

We had a pretty interesting week on markets with the Jackson Hole Symposium being a non event with no real policy change announced, the FOMC maintained that they will hike […]

Market Update

The British pound dropped to a 10-week low on Friday as investors rein in expectations of where they think the Bank of England’s interest rate might peak after recent soft […]

Market Update

From Monday-Thursday Sterling actually performed pretty well on the week, with Pound to Euro rate reaching 1.1730 and the Pound to Dollar rate hitting 1.28. Unfortunately, on Friday morning, weak […]

Market Update

Pound Sterling is still climbing against The EUR after yesterday’s positive inflation release. Inflation dropped from 7.9% down to 6.8% in the year to July, with the main contributors being […]

Market Update

After positive UK GDP data, the Pound traded a little higher on Friday after a relatively disappointing performance over the week- the data showed that the UK economy has in […]

Market Update

The US Dollar has edged lower this morning ahead of what is a key inflation release for The US. With headline CPI forecast to pick up slightly in July to […]

Market Update

Last week the main event was the BoE interest rate hike, where the Central Bank raised interest rates by 25bps- but kept the stance of more hikes COULD happen if […]