June 20th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
It was another eventful day yesterday as Trump threatened to impose a fresh wave of tariffs on Chinese imports. In a series of events that many people feared, Trump was...
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June 19th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
Following an extremely busy couple of weeks, yesterday was a fairly sedate affair, at least as far as economic data releases are concerned. However, while the rest of...
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June 18th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
It was a rocky end to a rocky week on Friday, as Trump approved $50 billion of fresh trade tariffs on Chinese imports. Trade tensions between the US and China had eased...
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June 15th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
The European Central Bank stunned the markets yesterday by announcing it would halve the pace of its quantitative easing programme to just €15 billion per month after...
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June 14th, 2018
By Christopher Nye
As expected, the Federal Reserve increased US interest rates by 25 basis points to 2% yesterday. It is the seventh increase since 2015, when the Fed began increasing...
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