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 | Oct 3, 2021 | EU, EUR, FX, GBP, USD
Last month was an EXTREMELY volatile week for Sterling- with GBPEUR falling to 1.1550, GBPUSD falling to 1.34, and EURUSD also falling to 1.1560. Now, if you were to read the tabloids, you would think this was happening because of the so-called petrol crisis in the...
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...
