G7

Trump Keeps His Cool As the G7 meetings in Biarritz drew to a close yesterday, the market was buoyed by some late optimism from President Trump. Only a few days after describing Chinese Premier Xi as an “enemy”, Trump seemed to reverse… Read More

The latest quarterly statistics on the employment front for New Zealand showed that the nation's jobless rate inched higher. Meanwhile, dull wage growth remained but pressures from strikes across the different sectors are expected to boost… Read More

The Bank of England (BoE) held its monetary policy meeting last week on Thursday. As widely expected, the central bank raised the key lending rate by 25 basis points to 0.75%. This was the second interest rate hike since November 2017.… Read More

Japan yen was stronger this morning after the weekend G7 summit saw investors ruling out yen intervention from BoJ. Trade surplus data from Japan also supported the view that the BoJ is unlikely to act in June. Today’s Economic… Read More