February 8th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
Yesterday, House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said that there will not be another government shutdown over Trump’s demands for border wall funding. She said that the...
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February 8th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
Following rafts of disappointing data from the back-end of 2018 and into the new year, the European Commission has downgraded its growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020. It...
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February 8th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
The Bank of England announced its interest rate decision yesterday and, unsurprisingly, they were kept on hold this time around. What made for more interesting reading,...
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February 7th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
America’s trade deficit with the rest of the world narrowed to $49.3 billion in November. That is down from $55.7 billion the previous month and much better than...
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February 7th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
There was yet more disappointing data from Germany yesterday. The eurozone’s largest economy released December’s factory orders, which showed an unexpected...
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February 7th, 2019
By Kiran Najran
On a day when the European Council president saw fit to criticise Brexiters who could still see the UK crash out of the EU without a deal, the ratings agency S&P...
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