Inflation

The consensus among economists is that inflation in the UK during June will be well above the BOE's target. However, recent comments from Governor Andrew Bailey have put the emphasis on the labour market. With many other major central banks…
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Wednesday's US CPI figures will be pivotal for the markets, as it's the last major data point ahead of next week's FOMC decision. The Fed is in its pre-rate decision blackout, meaning that there won't be any comment from officials to…
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Japan's central bank has been cautiously trying to raise rates for over a year now. With the economy staying in the green, it had room to do so. But, now that the consensus of economists points to the first negative GDP reading since the…
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Cable's upward surge came to a halt this week, at least for now. But the upward gains in the currency pair haven't been so much due to the pound's strength. Rather, weakness in the dollar has been the largest contributing factor. When…
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The Gold prices have been on a tear lately, gaining over 5% in less than two days. The price got just shy of $3,370/oz, before coming down with a bit of profit taking ahead of the long weekend. While the recent moves have been dramatic,…
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It seems markets and economists are finally coalescing around the expectation that the ECB will cut rates by 25 bps on Thursday. But, it's been a long road with a lot of twists and turns to reach that point. And there is understandably…
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The central bank of Canada is sitting down to a very difficult decision about what to do with rates. The markets seem pretty convinced that they will go for a quarter point cut, like the last sic times. If that were the case, then the…
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China will release a bit of economic data on Sunday that could be crucial to understand the country's policies which have an impact on major commodity currencies. The iron ore market that is crucial for Australia has seen fluctuations…
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The phenomenon of the Santa Rally is typically more associated with the stock market. But it is still relevant to currency traders, because the risk attitude shift. The better performance in equities typically translates into emerging…
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