Yearly Archives: 2014

Euro on back foot after US Dollar boost

3 November, 2014

Rob Bastin

Last week was a big week for the US Dollar with a number of key data releases…

Greenback Fails To Rally Further

31 October, 2014

Simon Eastman

With a day of few ecostats on Thursday, the dollar failed to make any further ga

ins from the 1.5 cents the day before…

US Dollar on the march as stimulus ends

30 October, 2014

Robin Haynes

The Federal Reserve last night used its monetary policy statement to officially announce the end of its stimulus programme…

Doom and Gloom on the Currency Markets

29 October, 2014

Tom Arnold

Everywhere we look at the moment the news seems to be bad for the various major currencies…

Quiet start to the week, USD the focus

28 October, 2014

Matthew Boyle

It has certainly been a quiet start to the week with yesterday offering very little data of any major note, and as such very little currency market movement…

A look ahead to the currency market this week

27 October, 2014

Rob Bastin

Last week’s trading saw a mixed bag for the pound with very little movement to note over the course of the week…

Cracks beginning to show – Uncertain times for GBP

24 October, 2014

Matthew Boyle

It has been a week of ups and downs for the majors but most particularly for GBP. Monday and Tuesday were relatively quiet days with little data of note released. As we moved to Wednesday we saw the first major release with the Bank of England minutes. It has been widely reported that in recent weeks that Mark Carney has done somewhat of a U-turn on the notion of an interest rate rise from 0.5% to 0.75% as we are not hitting inflation targets of 2%.

Markets Losing Direction

23 October, 2014

Simon Eastman

Wednesday was a mixed day for data but also a confusing day for sentiment in the currency markets…

Deficit up as currency markets await Bank of England news

22 October, 2014

Robin Haynes

Buried beneath the headlines yesterday almost unnoticed, was a surprise increase in the UK deficit, or public sector borrowing figures…

No movement for sterling ahead of mid-week data

21 October, 2014

Rob Bastin

This week’s trading got off to a particularly slow start yesterday with an absence of any key economic data…