by Prem Raja | Dec 22, 2024 | EU, EUR, FX, GBP, GDP, USD
Last week was a pretty volatile week from a Sterling and Dollar perspective- with both central banks having their interest rate decision within 24 hours of each other. The Fed decided to cut 25bps but hold off on any further cuts over the new few months, which...
by Prem Raja | Dec 15, 2024 | EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
Sterling ended the week on a pretty negative note following weak UK GDP data with GBPEUR falling to 1.20, and GBPUSD falling to 1.26. The biggest concern with the data was that the services sector in the UK showed no growth in October, the same as September, which has...
by Prem Raja | Dec 1, 2024 | EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
November was a very volatile month mainly due to the U.S. presidential election and issues in the German government, we saw some big moves in FX, we have GBPEUR at 1.20, EURUSD at 1.05 (Down from 1.10) and GBPUSD at 1.27 (Down from 1.32)- the longevity of these moves...
by Prem Raja | Nov 17, 2024 | Misc.
On Friday UK GDP numbers showed that growth in the UK had slowed down to just 0.1% by September, which has had an instant negative impact on Sterling exchange rates. What this release has shown is that the actions taken in the latest budget will now most definitely...
by Prem Raja | Oct 12, 2024 | EU, EUR, FX, GBP, GDP, USD
Hello all! Apologies for the lack of reports over the last few weeks, I have been travelling but back in the UK now and back on the desk- so far we have had a pretty eventful month with escalations in the Middle East, plenty of news out of the Bank of England and the...
