May 12th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
Yesterday, the Bank of England cut its growth forecasts and predicted higher inflation on ‘Super Thursday’. The BoE’s monetary policy committee did vote to leave...
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May 11th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
Yesterday, sterling maintained its recent relative strength by gaining slightly against the US dollar and the euro as Donald Trump’s sacking of James Comey, the...
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May 10th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
On a day where Jeremy Corbyn formally launched Labour’s election campaign and Theresa May confirmed she wanted to bring back fox hunting, it continued to be...
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May 9th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
Yesterday was understandably centred on Emmanuel Macron’s win against Marine Le Pen in the French presidential elections. However, while leaders across Europe...
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May 8th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
As expected, the French voted the moderate candidate Macron in as President. This was a rejection of the extreme right politics of Le Pen and the euro weakened slightly...
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May 5th, 2017
By Christopher Nye
Difficult to assess the week just ending. UK data was better than expected but because of the positive economic data coming from Europe – and it appearing that the...
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