December 10th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
The highlight from the US on Friday was the non-farm payrolls for November, which showed 155,000 jobs were added. This was well below the 200,000 the markets had been...
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December 10th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a staunchly Catholic conservative career politician, was elected leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats on Friday. As the successor...
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December 10th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
The Halifax house price index for November was released on Friday morning and both the monthly and annual readings came in well below expectations. Month-over-month,...
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December 7th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
If you’re tired of hearing about Brexit, then perhaps yesterday’s news provided some relief. However, it was more bad news, as the FTSE 100 suffered its worst day...
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December 7th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
The main economic data release from yesterday was the US balance of trade figures for October 2018. They showed that the trade deficit widened to $55.5 billion from an...
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December 7th, 2018
By Kiran Najran
Although stock markets across Europe slumped, there was some welcome positive economic data from Germany yesterday. The eurozone’s largest economy has not been...
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