December 19th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
On what was a fairly quiet start to the week, the pound made some gains against the euro and US dollar. As we mentioned yesterday, sterling is performing relatively...
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December 18th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
On Friday we learned that – finally – phase two of the Brexit talks will commence before too long. There is still some confusion as to when this will be, as...
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December 15th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
Sterling has enjoyed a relatively good week and just about maintained its recent gains. It has been a week of Central Bank meetings with no alarms and no surprises –...
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December 14th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
It was a bit of a mixed day for the UK yesterday as we had both good and bad news. First, the bad news. The UK employment total dropped by 56,000 in the three months to...
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December 13th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
Data released yesterday showed that the UK’s inflation rate increased to 3.1% in November from 3% in October. It is the highest rate of inflation since March 2012...
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December 12th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
On what was an extremely quiet day for economic data yesterday, bitcoin took centre stage as it made its debut on the world’s futures market. Futures contracts...
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