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EuropeIt’s been another bad day for European markets with the FTSE100 down for the fourth day in succession, while the rest of Europe has also posted large weekly losses, after President Trump...

The US nonfarm jobs report came and went without much fanfare on Friday, the markets unwavering in their focus on Donald Trump’s latest trade war offensive.Entering a bloodied battlefield, the...

Equity markets tumbled after Donald Trump imposed 10% tariff on another 300 billion US dollar worth of Chinese goods that were exempt from duties so far. New tariffs came by surprise just after a...

Anyone trying to determine the next move in stock markets in the last 24 hours would be justified in feeling like they’ve just experienced a bit of whiplash. A sharp move lower in the wake of a...

The pound started August much like it ended July – in a bad way. The Dow Jones, meanwhile, picked itself back up after losing its head post-Fed decision on Wednesday.Though the Bank of England...

EuropeIt’s been another mixed session for markets in Europe, with the FTSE100 under pressure for the third day in succession, weighed down by some disappointing numbers from the oil and gas...

Super Thursday was certainly not the best description of today's events at the Bank of England, but let's face it, it was never going to be. These quarterly events are often at least one of the...

The BoE left rates and QE unchanged as widely expected, an in a unanimous vote. In the Quarterly Inflation Report, the Bank has made changes to inflation and growth forecasts, raising the former and...

European markets have opened lower this morning taking their cues from the sharp falls in US markets after the US Federal Reserve declined to give markets what they wanted in the form of a time line...

If the goal of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee was to inspire confidence in investors, businesses and consumers to sustain economic...