The newsflow out of Europe has been intense in the past few days, with immigration, Brexit and the European Union’s counter-threats to President Trump’s import tariffs hogging the headlines. Yet…
After two reasonably quiet weeks on the data front, the calendar is once again quite heavy particularly in the US with PMI numbers and private-sector and US-wide labour market data…
The US Dollar once again resumed its climb after having been stable in the previous week and it has rallied further today. US data remains strong on the whole, while…
Sterling has continued to slide with the trade-weighted-index now down 1.5% since mid-May to its lowest point since mid-March. GBP/USD traded as low as 1.305, a level not seen since…
The FX markets have been reasonably well-behaved despite the raging trade and investment war between the US and its trading partners weighing on US and Asian equity markets, and in…
Again a reasonably quiet week in terms of tier-1 macro data, although the Eurozone and US will publish important inflation data on Friday. In the UK, MPC members McCafferty and…
With little tier-1 macro data for markets to focus on last week, the onus was on central banks and officials and as always US President Trump to set the tone….
US equities are up at the time of writing but the Dollar is weaker across the board after a nevertheless good week for the US currency. Markets were seemingly unimpressed…
Currency markets have been more subdued today with the Dollar ultimately treading water against most major currencies. The Euro weakened a little further yesterday after European Central Bank President Draghi…
Global risk appetite is on the back foot following a further escalation in tensions between the US and China over trade. US tariffs of 25% on $34bn worth of Chinese…
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