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Oct 16, 17 •
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Jovana Pribic
Comments Off on Pressure will be on for the BoE to raise interest rates, if the U.K. CPI comes in at 3%, expect sterling to react if the forecast is met
On Tuesday morning, at 8:30am GMT, the U.K. official statistics agency (the ONS) will reveal the latest CPI figure in a series of inflation data, which will also include the RPI and producer price input inflation. The forecast is for CPI (consumer price...
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Oct 12, 17 •
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Jovana Pribic
Comments Off on Will the latest consumer price inflation figure from the USA, give the green light to the FOMC to raise interest rates at their December meeting?
From various USA sources on Friday, we receive the latest: CPI data, advanced retail sales and the university of Michigan confidence survey. A trinity of highly valuable, yet distinctly different metrics that will shine a light into the various crevices of:...
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Oct 5, 17 •
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Jovana Pribic
Comments Off on Will the NFP numbers released this Friday shock investors?
As always, there’s plenty of reference to the upcoming NFP numbers in the financial mainstream press this week. But most analysts appear to be missing the elephant in the room; the incredibly low forecast of 80k to 90k, depending on whether Reuters, or...
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Jan 9, 17 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Let’s party like it’s 19,999.
At one stage, during the New York trading session on Friday 6th January, the DJIA reached its highest point historically, reaching 19,999, just one point shy of the critical psyche ‘handle’ of 20,000. The UK’s FTSE 100 printed several record...
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Jan 5, 17 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Fed minutes indicate a cautious approach towards 2017 base rate rises, as concerns regarding a fiscal stimulus neutralise forward guidance.
The UK’s economic ability to withstand the impact of the Brexit referendum vote continues. The UK’s construction data for December, as measured by Markit and CIPS, came in at 54.2, well ahead of the previous print of 52.6 and exceeding...
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Jan 3, 17 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on European equity markets power ahead on Monday, due to healthy manufacturing PMI numbers.
Despite the fact that London and USA markets were closed on Monday, European equities enjoyed solid gains on the strength of solid PMI manufacturing data, which came in ahead of the analysts’ polled predictions. Notwithstanding the encouraging...
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Nov 16, 16 •
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Maria Iacob
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It’s now an anniversary calendar week since president elect Donald Trump won the presidential race. The wild gyrations we’ve witnessed on most markets since, as: analysts, market movers and traders took stock of the result and adjusted to the...
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Apr 30, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on German retail data falls by 1.9% year on year, German unemployment falls by unexpected amount, whilst French consumption rises marginally
In the overnight early morning session news was revealed that the BOJ decided to keep the monetary stimulus programme unaltered at an annual pace of 60 trillion to 70 trillion yen ($587-685 billion). Turning to Europe, whilst Germans are spending less...
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Apr 29, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on UK GDP rises by 0.8% in the last quarter and by 3.1% annually
This morning we received the latest data regarding the levels of Spanish unemployment and the news wasn’t good with the unemployment rate still remaining stubbornly and alarmingly high at 25.9%. With just over one in four adults out of work in Spain and...
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Apr 28, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
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Analysts had expected a circa 13% rise in retail sales in March, due to many consumers bringing forward their purchases in order to avoid the hike in sales tax that the Japanese government introduced from April. However, despite the rush sales still fell...
