March 13th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
It was unusual for the US dollar not to be moved more by the non-farm payrolls figure on Friday, which came in higher than expected. 235,000 jobs were created in...
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March 13th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
Following the hawkish commentary from the European Central Bank meeting, we saw further comments that helped strengthen the single currency at the end of last week. It...
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March 13th, 2017
By Ricky Bean
On Friday the UK released data which showed that the manufacturing sector contracted in January. The drop-off has been attributed to the ‘highly erratic’ pharmaceutical...
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March 10th, 2017
By Smart Currency
Despite the lack of economic data from the UK this week, sterling continued to weaken across the board and in the process broke through key psychological support levels...
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March 10th, 2017
By Smart Currency
Yesterday was an important day for the Eurozone, starting with the ECB leaders’ summit along with the deposit facility rate which came out as expected. This was...
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March 10th, 2017
By Smart Currency
The US dollar was relatively unmoved on Thursday. Oil prices have been dropping over the past 24 hours, falling below $50 a barrel: a key psychological level. Investors...
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