On Wednesday February 14th at 13:30PM GMT (U.K. time), the USA BLS department publishes its latest findings regarding CPI (inflation) in the USA. There’s a series of CPI data released at the same time, but investors and analysts will concentrate on two key measures, the month on month and year on year CPI figures. Due […]
On February 13th at 9.30AM the U.K. statistics agency the ONS, will publish the latest inflation figures for the U.K. economy. The inflation figures include the: CPI, RPI, core inflation, input, output and house price inflation. It’s the main CPI figures, both month on month and year on year, that’ll be closely watched by analysts
The worst week in approximately two years for USA equity markets closed on a high last Friday as the indices finished in positive territory; DJIA up 1.39%, SPX up 1.49% and NASDAQ up 1.44%. The indices have now moved out of the correction area (called as down 10% from the recent peak), but are still
Whilst the Trump administration recently confused and contradicted itself regarding the merits of a low or high value USD, many analysts and economists who will be close to the USA administration, as well as the FOMC committee members and their team of advisors, will know that the USA has to find a balance for the
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The general consensus opinion delivered by market analysts that sterling recovered in 2017, after suffering a severe sell off due to the referendum shock vote in 2016, deserves closer scrutiny. Many mainstream financial analysts pointed at cable (GBP/USD) to prove the recovery theory, completely ignoring the fact that the rise of the pound versus the
The latest Japanese QoQ (Q4) GDP figure is published on Tuesday and the prediction is for a significant fall to be revealed, from 2.5% to 0.9%. If this forecast is met then investors may conclude that the celebrations regarding the apparent success of Abenomics, were premature. Yen may come under pressure if investors then quickly
The DJIA shed close on 1000 points at the close of the New York session, whilst the SPX lost up to 4% during its intraday session lows, the SPX has now experienced five of its worst days (in series) since 2015. Once again the excuse for the selloff centered on the potential for moderate interest
After Monday’s global market selloff, followed by Tuesday’s recovery in USA markets, USA equities whipsawed throughout Wednesday’s New York session, whilst European and other global indices rose sharply to restore a form of equilibrium, across a broad range of indices. The DJIA fell by 0.09% to maintain a slight market gain for the year, now
U.S. equities oscillated between significant losses and equally solid gains during Tuesday’s session. The DJIA fell by circa 500 points shortly after the New York open, rose quickly by circa 350 points, then slumped to a post loss on the day, threatening to close the day out near flat 2.33% on the day. The wider
On Thursday February 8th, at 12:00pm GMT (U.K. time) the central bank of the U.K. the Bank of England, will reveal their decision regarding interest rates. Currently the base rate is at 0.5%, and there is little expectation for a rise. The BoE also discuss and then reveal their decision regarding the U.K.’s current asset
