Morning Roll Call

European car sales slumped in the month of August, with the exception of the UK, whose bi-annual August new registration habit, helped boost figures to buck the trend. Sales in Cyprus tumbled by 40% so far this year, illustrating the impact of its bailout, in particular the capital controls which are restricting how much money […]

There is a phrase that’s often used in the UK when somebody states the obvious, the phrase has an expletive in it so we can’t post it in full. It’s a reference to the superb detective skills of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, we’re sure you can guess the gap in the three word phrase;

Friday is the infamous anniversary of the introduction of open ended quantitative easing, the monetary easing experiment that was intended to stimulate the USA economy from the bottom up by way of $85 billion of monetary stimulus each month. The failure to stimulate the economy has been of epic proportions, growth in the USA has

There are many times when the UK takes its economic lead from the USA. The USA appeared to ‘enjoy’ a secular rally in house prices and mortgage applications late 2012 and early 2013. That renewed impetus had many analysts fearing that a repetition of the boom and bust of 2008 could re-occur. However, lately the

A potential solution to the growing threat of force versus the Assad regime by the USA added calm to global equity markets. Added to this potentially positive news data published from China, suggesting that the Chinese economy is once again in growth mode, encouraged a ‘risk on’ sentiment to envelope global markets on Tuesday. China’s

  The World Trade Organisation is refusing to be taken in regarding co-ordinated talks of a global economic revival. It cut its forecasts on Monday for trade growth, due to Europe’s weak economy. The WTO now expects world trade to expand by 2.5% in 2013, down from 3.3%. It also lowered its 2014 forecast to

The best piece of advice we’ve come across with regards to trading FX during the publication of the NFP jobs number is don’t, “don’t trade it”. Actually that’s not the whole story, let us explain… Firstly to try and enter the market during such a volatile time can be tricky. Your orders, fills and stops

Positive USA Data Cheers Markets Despite Potential Syrian Conflict Escalation Despite opening in negative territory and remaining there for much of the morning session on Wednesday, European markets finished mainly in the green after positive data from the USA floated many of the boats at sea and PMI service sector results proved bullish, with the

USA manufacturing expanded at a faster rate than the economists polled had predicted, activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in August for the third consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 51st consecutive month, according to the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business. The PMI registered 55.7 percent,

Whilst USA markets were closed on Monday (owing to a bank holiday) the telecoms sector was alight with news that Vodafone sold its shareholding in Verizon. The figure was $85bn, a huge figure for the shareholding. But put into perspective by the timely reminder that this sum is only equivalent to one month of the