April 30th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
On a day dominated by economic data releases from the UK and US, the fact the German unemployment rate slipped to its lowest mark for almost 38 years slipped under the...
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April 27th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
It was a day of very few surprises as far as the ECB announcement went. Interest rates were left unchanged by policymakers and they said that this would remain the case...
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April 26th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The ECB meet later this morning and attention will be focused on what Draghi says in the subsequent press conference. It is known that a strong euro – especially...
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April 25th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The German Ifo business climate index included the service sector for the first time and fell by 1.2 points to 102.1 in April. It had been expected to hit 102.7 and...
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April 24th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The euro weakened against sterling and the dollar yesterday, following the release of PMI data that wasn’t exactly disappointing, but showed growth is slowing in...
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April 23rd, 2018
By Kiran Najran
With the recent raft of disappointing data from the eurozone, all eyes were on Friday’s flash consumer confidence release. It was expected to fall to -0.2 in...
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