February 6th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
After delaying his State of the Union address because of the longest government shutdown in history, yesterday Trump finally delivered it. In an 80-minute speech he...
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February 5th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
Although we have now entered the second month of 2019, we are still getting economic data readings from the back-end of last year and yesterday was no exception. In the...
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February 4th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
Non-farm payrolls in January smashed forecasts, with figures showing a massive 304,000 jobs were created last month. This was much better than the 165,000 the markets...
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February 1st, 2019
By Kiran Najran
Following the longest government shutdown in history, Trump is still looking for ways to secure funding to build a border wall. His demands for $5.7 billion are...
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January 31st, 2019
By Kiran Najran
Although the longest government shutdown in history has now come to an end, the effects of it are expected to filter through to the US economy over the next few weeks....
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January 30th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
The main release from the US yesterday was the consumer confidence index reading for January. The figure – calculated by America’s Conference Board –...
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