Brexit negotiations are main sterling driver
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- October 23, 2017
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Sterling exchange rates have been stuck in limbo due to comments made by EU officials following recent Brexit negotiations- fortunately, Donald Tusk (EU Council President) announced that recent comments made by Michel Barnier about Brexit talks hitting a “Deadlock” were over exaggerated and progression has been made between the UK & EU- Though this progress […]
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Pound hits 2 week low
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- October 20, 2017
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Britain’s pound skidded to a two-week low this morning amid doubts over the outlook for Bank of England interest rate moves and concerns over Brexit. Sterling has been pushed lower this week by a combination of weak data and comments from BoE policymakers that markets have interpreted as dovish. Although investors are pricing in an […]
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Retail Sales Drop!
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- October 19, 2017
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British retail sales suffered an unexpectedly sharp slowdown in September, dragging quarterly growth to its weakest annual rate since 2013, suggesting consumer demand remains uncertain as the Bank of England nears its first-rate rise in a decade. Retail sales volumes fell 0.8 percent in September, the Office for National Statistics said this morning, reversing a […]
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UK pay growth lags behind Inflation
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- October 18, 2017
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Sterling got only a temporary boost from data showing British wage growth edged above forecasts this morning, rising briefly against the dollar before dropping off again. British pay growth has lagged behind inflation again, official data showed, but the figures are likely to cement expectations among investors that the Bank of England will soon raise […]
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Sterling at a 10 day high
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- October 13, 2017
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Sterling rose today to a 10-day high, boosted by a report in a German newspaper that the European Union could offer Britain a two-year transitional Brexit deal. The pound had tumbled on Thursday after the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters that talks around Britain’s divorce payment had hit an “impasse”. Last week, […]
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Pound gains against US Dollar
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- October 12, 2017
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Sterling edged higher today against a tepid dollar, despite a backdrop of uncertain Brexit negotiations. Signals from the U.S. Federal Reserve that central bankers were still concerned about persistently low inflation helped bump the pound to $1.3244, its highest point since October 4th. The cable’s gains have been driven primarily by weakness in the dollar […]
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Sterling looses ground as Euro gains
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- October 11, 2017
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The euro climbed to a two-week high today on relief that Catalonia had stopped short of formally declaring independence from the rest of Spain. Sterling was flat on Wednesday after two sessions of gains as doubts emerged on whether entrenched expectations of higher UK interest rates were reasonable given a backdrop of uncertain Brexit negotiations. […]
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Britain’s trade deficit hits a all time high
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- October 10, 2017
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British factories had their strongest two months of 2017 in July and August, suggesting the Bank of England remains on track to raise interest rates soon, but the deficit in trade in goods hit an all-time high. The data showed Britain’s economy remained in a low-growth gear in the third quarter after suffering its slowest […]
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Sterling suffered major blows last week
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- October 9, 2017
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Britain’s pound fell to four-week lows last week, amid growing uncertainty over Prime Minister Theresa May’s control of the leadership and strong U.S labour market data that boosted the dollar. Sterling was on track for its worst week in a year against the dollar and on a trade-weighted basis, after a more than 2 percent […]
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Sterling Outlook
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- October 6, 2017
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Market speculators are likely to keep their sterling positions steady this month, according to a plurality of respondents in a poll which predicted the currency will trade around where it is now against the euro and dollar in a year. Sterling was hammered after Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and is around 13 […]
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