25 April 2019 UK Consumers Opening their Wallets Again: Latest CBI Retail Survey

Retail sales grew for the first time since November 2018 in the year to April, according to the latest monthly CBI Distributive Trades Survey.

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18 April 2019 Dove / Hawk Scale: Where Central Banks are Likely to Move and Implications for Currencies

Citibank has come up with a graphic to illustrate where they think major central banks are now positioned on a scale of dovish to hawkish. The graphic below shows the European Central Bank is curreโ€ฆ

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10 April 2019 UK Economy On Track for Solid First Quarter after Holding January's Explosive Gains Through February

The UK economy could be on course for its best quarter since before the Brexit referendum of 2016 after explosive gains in GDP seen during January were extended in the February month, Office for Naโ€ฆ

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05 April 2019 German Manufacturing Production Contracts According to New Data, but Surge in Construction to Keep Economy Supported

German industrial production data reveals a sharp climb in construction activity but manufacturing remains an area of concern.

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03 April 2019 UK Economy Seen at Stall Speed Again in First-quarter after Services PMI Shock

The UK economy is likely to have stalled in the first quarter if Wednesday's IHS Markit services PMI is anything to go by, according to Capital Economics, as the sharp slowdown observed in the UK'sโ€ฆ

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03 April 2019 Chances of a 'No Deal' Brexit Have Actually Risen Following May's Overture to Corbyn

Analysts at Berenberg Bank have this morning taken another look at potential Brexit outcomes following news that Prime Minister Theresa May has reached out to opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to tryโ€ฆ

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02 April 2019 Construction Industry to Stagnate in First-quarter but Brexit Resolution would Spark Recovery says UK's No.1 Forecaster

The UK construction industry is likely to have stagnated during the first quarter, Pantheon Macroeconomics says, after the latest IHS Markit PMI showed activity among commercial bulilders and civilโ€ฆ

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