September 11th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
On Friday, the dollar hit its lowest levels in more than 2.5 years against a basket of currencies following reduced expectations concerning a Federal Reserve interest...
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September 11th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
The main talking point from last week was the ECB’s decision to keep interest rates at their current record lows and maintain their fiscal stimulus programme....
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September 11th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
Last Friday, we learned that UK construction output fell by 0.9% in July, the fourth consecutive monthly fall and below the 0.2% slide predicted by economists. On the...
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September 8th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
The US dollar has been heavily influenced by events happening outside of its borders over the last few days. First, it tumbled against the Canadian dollar after the...
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September 8th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
Yesterday the European Central Bank announced that they would not be making any changes to their current monetary policy. It is difficult to say whether this is a...
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September 8th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
Yesterday’s economic news was understandably dominated by the ECB meeting which struck quite a dovish tone throughout. However, there was some good news for the...
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