June 5th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
On a day when Trump took to Twitter to claim that he had the absolute right to pardon himself (but said he wouldn’t because he has done nothing wrong), US factory...
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June 4th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The main release on Friday was non-farm payrolls which came in much better than expected. Analysts had predicted there would be 189,000 jobs created in May, but the...
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June 1st, 2018
By Ricky Bean
After a couple of extensions to the period of exemption, at midnight, the US imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico. All three...
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May 31st, 2018
By Kiran Najran
It was always likely that growth in the US from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018 was going to show a slowdown, but not quite as much as first...
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May 30th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The dollar strengthened once more against sterling and the euro yesterday, and even managed to hit its highest mark against the euro for more than six months before...
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May 29th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Trump is known for his scattergun approach and it is fair to say that nobody can properly predict what he might do from one day to the next. Indeed, US allies in Asia...
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