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In addition to the priced in, 25 basis point hike, there were also plenty of other encouraging noises from the Fed last night. For example, the central bank increased growth projections from 2.4% to...

The US Treasuries yields slipped driving USD down across the broad depressed by the unchanged projections of the Federal Open Market Committee members who expected 3 times by 0.25% next year.Despite...

FTSE trades tight range ahead of Fed rate decisionThe FTSE snoozed its way through Thursday’s session, trading in a tight range of little over 20 points, as investors focus on the Fed rate...

EuropeThe FTSE 100 is being helped along by financial stocks as HSBC, Barclays (LON:BARC) and Prudential (LON:PRU) are higher on the session. Continental Europe is underperforming as the DAX and CAC...

Tonight sees the FOMC rate decision and anything other than a 25 basis point rate hike will be unacceptable for the market. We have seen a natural degree of calm in the last 24 hours, which is normal...

Despite wages increases at their fastest pace since early 2017, the pace of growth still lags inflation meaning that workers, on average, are experiencing pay cuts in real terms. The average earnings...

by Clement ThibaultAfter a relatively dull 2016 in Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), 2017 was more interesting than ever, but not for the traditional reasons. Rather, because of new developments on the...

US markets once again posted new record highs last night, on reports that US lawmakers were looking at pushing through a tax deal which would see the US corporate tax rate cut to 21% next year, as...

UK inflation rose to a near six-year high in November, and chances are that it could rise further before starting to ease again later in 2018. The upturn pushes the inflation rate into letter-writing...

UK inflation has jumped yet again this time hitting 3.1%, a huge 1.1% above the Bank Of England inflation target, meaning that the Governor will have to write a letter to the Chancellor explaining the...

The pound found little to work with in November’s inflation report, leaving the currency to wallow at its recent lows. Despite November’s CPI reading unexpectedly creeping to a fresh 5...

The FTSE 100 is the outperformer in Europe this morning as the weakened pound is keeping the index in positive territory. The spike in the pound after the UK inflation report was short lived, and this...

The latest inflation data from the UK has come in above forecast with the UK CPI Y/Y rising to 3.1%. This is the highest reading in more than 5 years and puts more pressure on the Bank of England to...