January 8th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
Given Thursday’s positive jobs data, it was felt that Friday’s non farm payroll report could have been strong. However, it wasn’t to be as the figure came...
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January 8th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
As expected, inflation in the eurozone fell to 1.4% in December from 1.5% in November. Prices are therefore increasing at a slower rate and appears to support the...
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January 8th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
Sterling ended the week on a positive, albeit a slight one. The strengthening of the pound against the euro and dollar was only slight and so it is nothing to get too...
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January 5th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The main release of yesterday was the Markit services PMI data for December 2017. Following a pretty mixed week for PMI data, attention was focused on this release to...
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January 5th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
It was a return to form for the euro yesterday, as it climbed higher against sterling and the dollar. This followed some extremely positive data coming from across the...
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January 5th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Figures released yesterday showed that private businesses in the US hired 250,000 workers in December 2017, which smashed forecasts of 190,000. It serves as further...
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