Sterling Gains on Lower Inflation

Pound Sterling has had a bit of a reprieve this morning with December Inflation figures coming in surprisingly lower than initial forecasts had predicted. Inflation was expected to hit 2.6% […]

UK Bond Yields Surge as Sterling Slides

The first full week of the year was not short on volatility, with bond yields in the UK surging beyond 5%. This sharp rise reflects investor concerns about the UK […]

Market Update

This morning has seen some much needed relief provided for GBP against it’s major currency peers, USD & EUR in particular with GBP climbing around 0.5% against both currencies after […]

Market Update

After a fairly positive week for Sterling, December’s Retail Sales put a halt to this run with poor figures recorded last month. This evidently came as a shock to the […]

Market Update

Stronger than expected U.S Retail Sales in December has helped to keep the US Dollar elevated near a 5-week high against the major currency pairs, with Interest Rate cut expectations […]

Market Update

Sterling slipped this morning and is on track for its biggest daily drop in a week as UK economy contracted by 0.5% in July, a worse than expected 0.2% contraction […]

Market Update

UK Core Inflation figures were forecasted to remain unchanged at 6.8% but came out 0.3% higher. MoM inflation also released 0.3% higher to previous levels.   Despite inflation consecutively falling […]

Market Update

This morning we see the retail sales figures released for the UK. Expectations were that it would continue to drop off, especially after seeing inflation levels stay above the 10% […]

Market Update

After a disappointing retail sales release from the U.S on Friday, we saw the markets very quickly jump into positions on the Dollar- GBPUSD fell from 1.25 down to 1.24, […]

Market Update

Markets have been quiet due to the extended Easter Bank Holiday weekend- but on Friday we did have U.S NFP’s release- and though the number was better than expected, the […]