August 28th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The headline release from the UK on Friday was the UK finance mortgage approvals for July. Last month, British banks approved 39,584 mortgages, which was a drop from a...
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August 28th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
The euro touched a three-week high against the dollar on Friday following Powell’s comments regarding future policy. The dollar’s loss was the single...
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August 28th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a speech at the Jackson Hole Symposium on Friday, in which he said that the Fed is not seeing signs that inflation is...
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August 24th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
It was another quiet day in the UK for economic data, with the CBI distributive trades survey the only release on the schedule. The survey showed strength in the high...
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August 24th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
It was an extremely busy day for the eurozone yesterday, with a raft of PMI data on the schedule. Germany’s services PMI climbed to 55.2 in August from 54.1 the...
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August 24th, 2018
By Ricky Bean
Following Wednesday evening’s FOMC meeting minutes release, the dollar lost some ground against sterling and the euro, but it bounced back yesterday as the news...
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