September 21st, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Employment in the US has been strong for some time now and there has been some extremely positive jobless claims data of late. However, initial jobless claims were...
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September 20th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Following the release of the inflation figures from the UK, the pound surged against the dollar and climbed above the $1.32 mark. However, in the afternoon, reports...
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September 19th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Trump has been threatening to impose a fresh wave of tariffs on Chinese imports for a while now, but yesterday he finally moved ahead with them. Overnight, he announced...
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September 18th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Reports over the weekend suggest that Trump has already made up his mind to impose a fresh wave of tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports. There has been talk of...
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September 17th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The US retail sales figures for August were released on Friday and came in below expectations. New data showed they rose by just 0.1% last month when analysts had...
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September 14th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
The main release from the US yesterday was the inflation data for August. It had been expected to fall from 2.9% in July to 2.8%, but it actually came in at 2.7%. As...
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