Coronavirus

17 August 2021 Pound-New Zealand Dollar Rate Jumps on New Lockdown & RBNZ Guidance

The New Zealand Dollar was jolted by a shock announcement by the country's Prime Minister that a three day snap lockdown would be enforced from midnight Tuesday in response to a single Covid-19 cas…

27 July 2021 Sharp Drop in Covid Cases Boosts Pound Sterling's Outlook say Analysts

The British Pound's outlook is brightening on signs a third wave of Covid-19 infections in the UK is ending according to analysts, with one saying they are recommending investors buy GBP/EUR this w…

22 July 2021 Pound Sterling: Delta Wave Shows Signs of Cresting

The British Pound is in the process of recovering ground lost over recent days aided by improving global markets and a slowing in the rate of acceleration in UK covid-19 cases, although the potenti…

19 July 2021 Delta-Inspired Market Rout Sinks the Pound

A sell-off in global markets meant the Pound fell against the Euro, Dollar and other safe-haven currencies, but gained against 'high beta' names such as the Canadian Dollar, Krone, New Zealand Doll…

13 July 2021 Pound Sterling Bulls Welcome Lifting of Remaining Covid Restrictions

The British Pound was underpinned by news at the start of the week the UK government would proceed with lifting the majority of the remaining Covid restrictions on July 19, however shaky market sen…

08 July 2021 Pound Sterling Could Weaken against Euro on UK's "Aggressive Reopening" says Deutsche Bank

The British Pound could be undermined by a surge in Covid-19 cases according to new analysis from foreign exchange strategists at one of the world's largest foreign exchange dealers.

06 July 2021 Pound Sterling Tipped to Remain Supported as July 19 Exit Receives Green Light

The British Pound was tipped to remain supported amidst expectations for a continued recovery of the UK economy, underpinned by the removal of all Covid-related restrictions by July 19.

22 June 2021 Soggy Summer Awaits Pound Sterling as it Falls Behind the Euro and Dollar in the Race to Normality

The British Pound will over coming days attempt to recover from recent lows, but any gains will depend on broader investor sentiment risk sentiment as well as rising fears that the UK is being left…

15 June 2021 Pound Sterling: Markets Digest Unlocking Delay, but Jobs Data Offers a Glimmer of Optimism

The British Pound is tipped to remain supported by analysts who say the announced delay to ending all Covid-19 restrictions in the UK was well known ahead of the actual announcement.

09 June 2021 'Lockdown Levels' of Covid Cases Likely by Month-end on Current Transmission Trends

The UK announced 7,540 new cases of Covid-19 on June 09, up on 4330 reported the previous Wednesday.

08 June 2021 Australian Dollar: Crédit Agricole says Low Vaccination Rate is Weighing

Australia's slow vaccination rollout leaves the country vulnerable to further cycles of economically damaging lockdowns, and this could be one reason why the Australian Dollar is underperforming sh…

08 June 2021 Vaccine Shields Pound Sterling from a More Severe Sell-off against the Euro and Dollar

UK Covid-19 cases continue to rise rapidly with cases doubling nearly every ten days according to the latest data, but news that hospitalisations are flat and all adults will be offered a vaccine b…

04 June 2021 Pound Sterling Forecast to Outperform Euro but Stay Steady against the Dollar as Vaccinations Win the Race against the Indian Variant

The British Pound is being tipped to advance against the Euro but tread water against the Dollar for the remainder of the year, thanks to a strong vaccine-inspired economic rebound.

01 June 2021 Indian Covid Variant Tipped to Keep Pound Sterling in Check against the Euro and Dollar

The coming week will be a key one in determining whether or not the UK is released from all Covid-19 restrictions on June 21, an outcome that will likely have implications for how the British Pound…

24 May 2021 Easing of Restrictions on June 21 Still Likely to Go Ahead Despite India Variant Concerns

The British Pound could continue to increase in value over coming days according to analysts we follow, however advances against the Euro will likely be harder to achieve given the improving econom…

18 May 2021 A "Troublesome Virus Wave" will be Avoided: Pantheon Macroeconomics

The significant reopening of the UK services sector on May 17 will fail to trigger a sufficiently large wave of Covid-19 cases to prompt the government to reintroduce restrictions in the summer, ac…

18 May 2021 Pound Rebound Unlikely to be Blown Off Course by Reopening Delay says Economist

Restrictions on movement and socialising were eased further in England, Wales and Scotland on Monday despite concerns about the spread in the UK of the Covid-19 variant that caused a surge in infec…

04 May 2021 Vaccine Pick-up in May Could Underpin Pound Sterling's 2021 Gains against Euro and Dollar

The UK's vaccine rollout will speed up in May according to reports, easing what might have been a contributing factor to the Pound's lacklustre April performance.

15 April 2021 Pfizer News Keeps Euro 'Vaccine Catchup' Trade Alive

Timely news from Pfizer that they are to increase the supplies of their vaccine to the EU has quelled concerns that the region's rollout programme was about to suffer another unwelcome setback.

14 April 2021 The Australian Dollar Has a Vaccine Problem

Questions of when, or indeed if ever, the Australian economy will return to full potential have been raised in the wake of comments from a senior government minister that international borders coul…