05 April 2017 ECB Won’t Taper Quantitative Easing "Until Well into 2018"

Willem Verhagen, Senior Economist, Macro & Strategy at NN Investment Partners suggests the ECB are unlikely to deliver the kind of action on quantitative easing that those who are looking for a…

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05 April 2017 UK Services PMI Beat Gives Pound First Tailwind of the New Month

Foreign exchange markets will be watching the outcome of the release of UK service sector PMI data due for release at 09:30 on Wednesday, April 5.

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04 April 2017 UK Construction PMI Misses Expectations but Firms Confident on Outlook

The second major UK economic data release of April 2017 has confirmed the UK construction sector continues to grow close to long-term rates.

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31 March 2017 UK Current Account Deficit Falls to Lowest Level in Years as UK Exports Rise

The UK's current account deficit - the millstone that hangs around the Pound’s neck - fell sharply in the final quarter of 2016 it has been revealed.

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31 March 2017 Euro Softens Against Dollar, Pound as Inflation Slides and ECB's Cœuré Warnings on Growth

The Euro exchange rate complex is likely to react to the next set of Eurozone inflation data, due out at 10:00 B.S.T.

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30 March 2017 Bank of England to Replace Animal Fat with Palm Oil in New £20 Notes

The Bank of England’s review into the composition of its new generation of polymer bank notes has confirmed a shift away from the use of polymer which contains animal fats.

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30 March 2017 UK Inflation Forecast to hit 3% by Christmas

UK CPI inflation breached the Bank of England’s 2% target for the first time since 2013 in February and focus turns to how far it will rise.

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