On Friday, President Trump has added yet another country to his list of increased steel and aluminum tariffs, and this time it is Turkey. As per Trump’s tweet last Friday, he has announced that Turkish-American relations are ‘not good at this time’ and has doubled the tariffs, thus the tariff on steel will rise 5o […]
In its regular economic bulletin, the ECB has stated on Thursday that there is an increased risk towards global growth due to the threat coming from the higher US tariffs towards Europe, as well as the possible retaliation of the affected countries. This view is in line with the policy statement published in July. Furthermore,
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UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, is preparing for a meeting with her cabinet ministers next month in order to discuss the preparation of United Kingdom in case of a no-deal Brexit according to Bloomberg. As the markets have increased their bets on Britain leaving the EU without a deal, the pound has hit the 2018
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Despite the appeals from the Washington’s allies, the United States President Donald Trump has kept his intentions and had imposed new sanctions to Iran, as Reuters had reported. Furthermore, he has promised that companies that are doing business with Iran will be banned from the United States. The cause of the move was the Iranian
As CNN has reported yesterday, it seems that the Great Britain has high chances to exit the European Union without a deal. In addition, the UK’s international trade secretary, Liam Fox, believes that there is 60-40 chance that UK would not reach a deal on Brexit and blames the stubbornness of the European Commission. His
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Last Friday the most anticipated macro-economic news release shown that the US job growth has slowed down in the previous month. The NFP reading came with 157,000 jobs created, while the expectancy was 191,000 jobs. In addition, the private sector created a total of 170k jobs that was less than expected as well, since the
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Yesterday all eyes were on the BoE decision regarding the interest rates and as it was widely expected, the rates were raised on Thursday. The decision came despite the raising concern over Brexit and the Bank of England has signaled that there additional hikes will come at a gradual pace. The Monetary Policy Committee of
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The widely popular topic of the United States trade war with various countries seems not to get exhausted, therefore just two days ago during Presidents’ Trump speech in Florida we have seen him trying to defend his trade policies. He has devoted a significant amount of time discussing the US and China tit-for-tat tariffs and
On Monday the investors were keeping a close eye on the German annual inflation reading, where the results came as expected in July and remained above the ECB price stability target. The German consumer prices rose by 2.1% year-on-year basis, which was in line with the analysts’ expectations but above the European Central Bank target
Last Friday all eyes were on the advanced GDP reading from the US, where the results have shown that the United States economy had accelerated in the 2nd quarter, where the seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4.1% in the period April-June was almost double the expansion we have seen in the first quarter of the year,
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