Zahir Shah

On Thursday evening at an E.U. summit, the leaders of the E.U. 27 finally took control of the Brexit process, by declaring the revised exit dates for the U.K. The March 29th deadline has been moved; if the U.K. parliament can’t agree to the withdrawal agreement, then it exits by April 11th, under a no

The next chapter of the Brexit debacle was reached on Thursday, as the U.K. prime minister May scuttled off to Brussels, in an attempt to negotiate an extension, to the March 29th leave date. She wanted June 30th, the Council appears unwilling to grant such an extension, given it would indirectly compel the U.K. to

By Thursday morning, the U.S. dollar had stabilised its Wednesday evening sell off, caused by the FOMC interest rate hold announcement and the dovish monetary policy statement, broadcast by Jerome Powell after the announcement. Mr. Powell hinted that the “normalisation” process; to take the key interest rate up to circa 3.5% by the end of

The FOMC rate setting meeting ended with the key interest rate being kept at 2.5%. However, the greenback crashed versus the majority of its peers on Wednesday evening, after the Fed chair and leader of the FOMC, delivered such a reactionary dovish policy statement, that investors and FX traders were taken by surprise. Jerome Powell

On Thursday March 21st, at 12:00pm U.K. time, the U.K. central bank the Bank of England, will announce its latest decision concerning the U.K. economy’s base rate. Currently at 0.75% the widely held consensus is that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, will announce that the rate will remain unchanged at 0.75%,

GBP pairs fell sharply during the early stages of the London-European trading session, as leading E.U. negotiator Michel Barnier instructed the U.K. that the European Council would not be making a decision on the U.K. request for a three month extension, to the Brexit date of March 29th, this week. Instead, the summit would delay

The Brexit debacle took another twist on Tuesday, as Michel Barnier, the leading E.U. negotiator, insisted that the U.K. government’s expectation; to have the exit extended beyond the March 29th legal date agreed by Parliament, is highly presumptive. Mr. Barnier echoed the statements made recently by various other leaders and representatives of the E.U. 27;

At 18:00pm U.K. time, on Wednesday March 20th, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will announce its latest decision with regards to the key interest rate for the USA economy. Currently at 2.5%, the widely held consensus, after news agencies such as Reuters and Bloomberg have polled their panel of analysts, is for no change.

The U.K. pound recovered a proportion of its lost gains, during the Sydney-Asian session on Tuesday morning, a recovery which continued into the early hours of the London-European trading session. The sell off, which sterling suffered during Monday’s sessions, was caused as a consequence of the speaker of the House of Commons, denying the U.K.