June 18th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
It was a rocky end to a rocky week on Friday, as Trump approved $50 billion of fresh trade tariffs on Chinese imports. Trade tensions between the US and China had eased...
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June 15th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
The European Central Bank stunned the markets yesterday by announcing it would halve the pace of its quantitative easing programme to just €15 billion per month after...
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June 14th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
As expected, the Federal Reserve increased US interest rates by 25 basis points to 2% yesterday. It is the seventh increase since 2015, when the Fed began increasing...
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June 13th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
It was another hectic day on the political and economic front, as we learned that UK wage growth surprisingly slowed in April, but jobs are still being created. In the...
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June 12th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
Yesterday wasn’t a great start to the week for sterling as it weakened against the euro and dollar. The moves came following a raft of extremely disappointing economic...
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June 11th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
It was a bit of a crazy end to the week on Friday with plenty happening around the world. A leaked recording of the increasingly fractious Boris Johnson showed that he...
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