by Prem Raja | Dec 19, 2021 | Brexit, Crypto, EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
Last week saw a week full of Central Bank decisions which ultimately have begun to dictate how exchange rates will look from January 2022- the first major event was the Fed announcing that they will be speeding up their tapering of QE, and begin looking at raising...
by Prem Raja | Nov 21, 2021 | Brexit, EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
The Pound had a great week last week after a number of supportive data releases in the UK including positive employment numbers, rising inflation, and an improvement in Retail spending. All three of these have now put the idea of an interest rate hike from the BoE...
by Prem Raja | Nov 6, 2021 | Brexit, EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
This last week was pretty rough for Sterling exchange rates- as I explained in my previous article there were two major events last week, the Fed and the BoE. The market had been positioning for the Bank of England to raise interest rates in November/December with two...
by Prem Raja | Oct 31, 2021 | Brexit, EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
October was a relatively strong month for Sterling with pretty hawkish comments coming from the Bank of England over the month giving markets an opportunity to begin pricing in interest rate hikes before 2022- and more next year. We have seen GBPEUR rise from 1.15 to...
by Prem Raja | Sep 12, 2021 | Brexit, EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
Sterling exchange rates (predominantly against the Euro) will enter the next week a lot stronger, after pretty good momentum for Pound to Euro exchange rates over the last few days- despite a pretty risk-off market on stocks and commodities through the latter half of...
by Prem Raja | Sep 5, 2021 | Brexit, EU, EUR, GBP, USD
Towards the end of last week, we saw GBP claw back losses against the U.S Dollar following underwhelming employment figures on Friday. The NFP report came in at 235k which was a huge miss with expectations at 750k jobs created. This data release confirmed that...
