Currency Market News from Smart Currency Business

June 6th, 2017

GE17: Boris launches extraordinary attack on Corbyn as May behaves imperfectly

It’s fair to say that not every MP’s conduct has been exemplary during the 2017 UK general election campaign. The knives were certainly out during a speech... Read more

June 5th, 2017

GE17: old adage rings true as Corbyn tries to sound death knell

By Christopher Nye

It is a truth near-universally acknowledged that a single week is a long time in politics and, if the events of today are anything to go by, we are in for an eventful... Read more

May 22nd, 2017

Managing the changing currency climate

By Christopher Nye

It’s fair to say that 2017 has been a pretty tumultuous year so far. Donald Trump is the President of the United States of America, the results from the French... Read more

May 19th, 2017

Make market orders part of your hedging toolkit

By Christopher Nye

“$100,000 costs £3.076.92 less than it did a month ago, a saving of close to 4%.” – Jamie Jemmeson, Manager of Structured Products and Risk, Smart... Read more

April 19th, 2017

General election: May just might forge ahead

By Christopher Nye

Just before 10:00 am on Tuesday after the Easter break, Downing Street announced that the Prime Minister would be making a statement at 11:15 am. Newsrooms around the... Read more

April 19th, 2017

Case study: Spring Films

By Christopher Nye

The challenge Spring Films is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning factual production company based in London, collaborating with people from all over the world.... Read more

March 30th, 2017

Case study: Rebecca Bevington-Smith, Financial Controller at Heavy Duty Designs

By Smart Currency

The challenge We design our seat covers here in the UK, but everything is manufactured in China. This means we need to pay our suppliers in US dollars. We used to... Read more

March 29th, 2017

UK businesses and Article 50: What happens now?

By Smart Currency

At 12.20 pm on 29th March Prime Minister Theresa May formally triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. Now the clock is ticking. The UK government and the European... Read more

March 14th, 2017

Article 50, US and European interest rates and the Dutch election

By Smart Currency

Sterling fell again this morning, now that Prime Minister Theresa May has got the green light for triggering Article 50. It has still not been confirmed by the... Read more

February 14th, 2017

Sterling strong while Europe worries

By Ricky Bean

Data could have a major impact on the three currencies we look at in this market update. That’s because markets see them as indicators of future economic strength... Read more

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Latest currency news

GE17: Boris launches extraordinary attack on Corbyn as May behaves imperfectly

GE17: old adage rings true as Corbyn tries to sound death knell

Managing the changing currency climate

Make market orders part of your hedging toolkit

General election: May just might forge ahead

Case study: Spring Films

Case study: Rebecca Bevington-Smith, Financial Controller at Heavy Duty Designs

UK businesses and Article 50: What happens now?

Article 50, US and European interest rates and the Dutch election

Sterling strong while Europe worries

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