2019, a bonkers year for currency
As we enter the pre-Christmas lull we thought it would be a good time to have a look back at 2019 and what shaped GBP, EUR and USD exchange rates over
Weekly Roundup: Chinese tariff cuts boost ...
News that China would dramatically slash its tariffs on over 850 imported products gave market risk appetite a boost, lifting both the Australian and
Weekly Roundup: Signs of manufacturing ...
While investors had anticipated a decline in December’s Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index the sharp drop from 10.4 to just 0.3 prompted USD exchang
Weekly Roundup: Euro falters on disappointing ...
Both the latest Eurozone and GfK German consumer confidence indexes failed to improve as forecast on Friday, leaving the euro on a weaker footing agai
Weekly Roundup: Increased odds of BoE ...
The pound fell out of favour with investors as the odds of an early 2020 BoE interest rate cut appeared to rise, with the currency falling to a monthl
Sharp RBNZ rate cut drags New Zealand dollar ...
While markets had expected the RBNZ to cut interest rates at its August meeting the size of the 50bpt cut prompted the New Zealand dollar to slump sha
Signs of weaker inflation weigh heavily on US ...
US dollar exchange rates came under pressure as July’s core producer price index saw a surprise decline, suggesting that US inflation is weaker than p
