April 30th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
The big release from the UK on Friday was the GDP growth rate for the first quarter of 2018. Rather alarmingly, the figure came in at 0.1% which is the slowest growth...
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April 27th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Sterling made some healthy gains against the euro yesterday, as the ECB announced it would be leaving interest rates unchanged for the foreseeable future. The pound...
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April 26th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
With no UK economic data releases of note yesterday, any sterling movements were likely to be caused by events elsewhere. And so it proved, for it climbed...
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April 25th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The major release of the day from the UK was the UK public sector net borrowing figures which showed a surplus for March. The figure came in at 0.262 billion compared...
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April 24th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The pound’s woes against the dollar continued yesterday and it has lost almost four cents in a week. There were no economic data releases from the UK yesterday,...
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April 23rd, 2018
By Kiran Najran
Comments made by Mark Carney have poured cold water on expectations of a UK interest rate rise when the Monetary Policy Committee convene in May. The markets had...
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