December 14th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
The Federal Reserve increased interest rates by 0.25% yesterday to 1.5%. The move was largely expected and the markets had priced a hike in. In her final speech as Fed...
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December 14th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
The European Central Bank will meet today to announce their interest rate decision and could perhaps give indications of future monetary policy. ECB President Mario...
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December 14th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
Sterling closed the day by making some extremely slight gains against the US dollar and euro on what was a very quiet day for currency movements. Perhaps traders were...
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December 13th, 2017
By Kiran Najran
Producer prices increased by 0.4% last month which was faster than expected. The figure could point to increasing inflation in the US so it will be interesting to see...
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December 13th, 2017
By Kiran Najran
The German ZEW economic sentiment index is a survey of up to 300 experts from banks, insurance companies and financial businesses and, as such, is seen as a leading...
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December 13th, 2017
By Kiran Najran
The big talking point from yesterday was that UK consumer price inflation increased to 3.1% in November. Economists had been hoping that 3% was the ceiling and that...
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