UK Retail Rebound and Struggling EUR
Retail sales in the UK recorded strong sales volumes in January, seeing its first monthly rise since August. The retail sector overshot expectations with margin, coming in at 1.7%. Comparing […]
Pound Sterling Hits 2025 Highs as Inflation Surges
Pound Sterling is now boasting 2025 highs against the Euro, with the rate being at its best level since January 2nd, due to inflation surprising markets and showing that the […]
Trade War Tensions and Economic Uncertainty Shape Global Outlook
Markets are fairly steady currently, amid Trade War jitters with Donald Trump officially imposing a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports into the US earlier this week. With […]
GBP Struggles Despite Retail Sales Boost – Market Eyes BoE & Fed Speeches
Concerns have been raised in the last few months on how the UK economy is underperforming – which has been noticed on markets with GBP not performing as well as […]
Inflation, GDP, and Central Bank Signals Set the Tone for FX This Week
Last week was a volatile yet relatively predictable one, with markets digesting further tariff announcements from President Trump and the Bank of England’s 25bps interest rate cut. Despite these developments, Sterling ended […]
BoE Rate Cut Impacts GBP, UK Housing Prices Surge, and US Jobs Data in Focus
There were no surprises from Bank of England’s decision of cutting interest rates yesterday by 25 basis points, now holding a base rate of 4.5%. Even if it was expected […]
Euro Rebounds as Tariff Fears Ease
Trump tariff unpredictability has led to a recovery for the Euro against the US Dollar, regaining 2% to climb above 1.04 since Monday. The currency pair had initially dropped to […]
Market Volatility Rises as Trade Tariff Uncertainty Shakes Currencies
The recent development of trade tariffs has shocked the markets in the last few days, initially being pushed on Canada, Mexico and China. The most recent developments is including the […]
ECB Rate Cut, German Retail Slump & US PCE in Focus
There were no surprises yesterday when the European Central Bank lowered their interest rates levels by 25 basis points, down to a base rate of 2.9%. Even if the decision […]
Fed Holds Rates, ECB Decision Looms Amid Economic Uncertainty
Yesterday brought the first policy decision of 2025 for The Federal Reserve, and despite pressure from Donald Trump last week stating interest rates should be lower, the central bank opted […]