by Prem Raja | Sep 24, 2023 | EU, EUR, FX, GDP, USD
Sterling weakness has been the main theme of September so far, and last week we saw these moves accelerated after the Bank of England decided to keep interest rates on hold and going against market expectations. Inflation has been cooling slightly (For now), however,...
by Prem Raja | Aug 28, 2023 | EU, EUR, FX, GBP, GDP, USD
As most of you are aware, it was a bank holiday in the UK on Monday hence the blog being one day late- we had a pretty interesting week on markets with the Jackson Hole Symposium being a non event with no real policy change announced, the FOMC maintained that they...
by Prem Raja | Aug 13, 2023 | Brexit, EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
After positive UK GDP data, the Pound traded a little higher on Friday after a relatively disappointing performance over the week- the data showed that the UK economy has in fact still grown a little through this current cost of living crisis- for those of you in the...
by Prem Raja | Jul 30, 2023 | EU, EUR, FX, GBP, GDP, USD
Apologies for the lack of reports over the last few weeks- I have been in the process of moving house and now finally have my office set up so we are back to regular scheduled programming. The markets have been very volatile over the past week with the main catalysts...
by Prem Raja | Jun 25, 2023 | EU, EUR, FX, GBP, GDP, USD
As I mentioned last week, we were expecting a 25 bps hike from the BoE, however after another high inflation reading, the Central Bank had to make a more aggressive move on Thursday and decided to go with a 50 bps hike- stating that things are worse than they...
