February 19th, 2025
By Julian Benson
After spending most of the day trailing the pound, the dollar clawed back to lead on sterling and the euro by day’s end. Above expected inflation rises this morning...
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February 18th, 2025
By Jonathan Cook
Unemployment in the UK was unchanged month-on-month at 4.4% in December, avoiding the painful increase in joblessness that many economists had predicted. Average...
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February 17th, 2025
By Jonathan Cook
Sterling benefitted from unexpectedly positive GDP numbers (plus a notably weaker US dollar) to end last week on a high. In just one week, GBP/USD gained almost two per...
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February 14th, 2025
By Christopher Nye
Sterling leapt to its best level of 2025 against the US dollar yesterday, after greater than expected growth in the UK economy. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for...
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February 13th, 2025
By Jonathan Cook
The UK economy grew by 0.4% in December and by 0.1% across the final three months of 2024. Both of those figures were higher than expected and help to ease the pressure...
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February 12th, 2025
By Jonathan Cook
The skies brightened for the pound on Tuesday as market confidence in Donald Trump’s economic policies showed signs of weakening. In what has otherwise been a bleak...
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