Currency Analysis & Opinion

The latest employment data could be described as pretty solid overall, although wage growth has slightly missed the consensus forecast.Earnings excluding bonuses rose by 2.8% compared to the 2.9%...

The jam-packed calendars for economic data and political events means it is going to be a very busy week in the financial markets, perhaps the busiest of the year so far. This implies that the focus...

It was a busy week on the geopolitical side as the G7 meeting didn’t have a very happy ending, while the world eyed the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jung-Un, which will take...

US President Donald Trump’s verbal bombardment of Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau after the weekend’s G7 summit threatens the ongoing renegotiation of the North American Free Trade...

In a week littered with a UK jobs report, inflation and retail sales readings, Federal Reserve and ECB meetings and a historic summit between the US and North Korea, the pound fell at the very first...

There’s a plethora of UK economic releases this week that will go some way to determining whether an August hike from the Bank of England is on the cards - and the early indications are not...

First, a review of last week’s forecast:EUR/USD. The basic forecast for this pair, supported by the majority of analysts, assumed its growth to the zone of 1.1800-1.1830. The pair went up...

Global equities took a hit on the last trading day of the week as investors reallocate their portfolio toward less risky assets.The move was similar in the FX market with the US dollar extending gains...

Market OverviewMajor bond yields are beginning to fall away as a slight tilt back into safer haven assets has taken hold this morning ahead of the G7 meeting in Canada. This is helping to support the...

The euro continued to outperform for much of today’s session after top ECB policymakers delivered hawkish remarks on the eurozone economy this week, leading to some chatter that the central bank...

David Davis dealt a blow to the pound this afternoon, by forcing Theresa May to add a time limit to the Brexit backstop plan. A cap on how long the fall-back option – designed to avoid creating...

Are you a dollar bull or bear? We can't blame you if you haven't decided; even experts in the field disagree.David Bloom, HSBC's global head of currency strategy says that the US dollar is a major buy...

There’s been a fairly strong move lower in the pound in the last hour after the announcement that UK PM May has agreed to add a time limit in the Brexit backstop paper, following intense...

The pound is trading fairly mixed on the day as Brexit-politics threatens to come back to the fore for the markets with rumours doing the rounds that David Davis could be set to resign. Sterling has...