What’s another Ten Billion?

ECB finds more bad loans One of the major issues to be faced by the ECB once the whole QE and monetary policy saga unwinds...

Trump Continues Trade Offensive

Chats with Merkel and Macron to drum up support In a rare show of the need for consolidated action, President Trump apparently contacted the leaders...

Is Global Growth Sustainable?

G7 Central Banks eye a return to rate normality When the global financial crisis hit, and Central Banks realized that they had to act decisively...

Ranges Intact in Short Week

Sterling shrugs off Brexit concerns Last week was a good week for the UK economy, Sterling and Brexit. If what has been happening in the...

Trump Drives Risk Aversion.

Fighting a battle he cannot win. Donald Trump likes issuing Presidential memoranda. It appears to give him a sense of the dictator, a role he...

What goes up! Sterling still looks fragile.

Sterling still looks fragile. I cannot decide if it is me, or the pound, that is having an “Emperor’s New Clothes moment”. I suppose only...

UK: Unemployment Falls, Average Salary Grows. GBP up!

At 10:30, the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) published data for January from the local labor market, where unemployment fell to 4.3% after...

Monetary Policy to the fore. Could Powell be the next departure?

Let’s start with a little speculation. Given the “revolving door” policy that Donald Trump seems to be using to try to find a settled Cabinet,...

One Step is just One Step.

Not necessarily forward The UK and EU announced that an agreement has been reached over the transition period that will follow the UK’s departure from...

UK to agree shorter transition.

Davis slips a major concession into conversation It has been a feature of Brexit negotiations that the market seems to slip into an optimistic frame...

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