Good morning   More USD weakness for much if the day yesterday, GBPUSD reached a heady 1.2550 in the morning although the pair did drift...

Good morning   Yesterdays US JOLTS job report came out on the weaker side of expectations which helped push USD lower.  This particular...

Good morning   Quite day yesterday, USD pushing higher on the Trump tariff talk over the weekend, only to reverse much of the moves after...

Good morning   The introduction of US trade tariffs over the weekend has sent the US dollar marching higher.  With Mexico and Canada hit...

Good morning   Month end is here.  January always feels like a long month to me but if anything I think this one has gone pretty quickly....

Good morning   All was pretty much as expected yesterday, Fed kept rates unchanged at 4.5% while BoC cut rates 25bps to 3%.  USDCAD...

Good morning   Nvidia shares fell sharply yesterday, along with other tech firms, as the Chinese firm DeepSeek put a question mark over...

Good morning   Some weaker US PMI and sentiment data late last week sent the US dollar lower with GBPUSD hitting 1.2500 and EURUSD...

Good morning   The USD weakness theme continues, this time helped along by Trump who is demanding Fed’s Powell cuts rates, suggesting he...

Good morning   All in all the currency markets were pretty stable yesterday, GBPUSD did reach as high as 1.2375 in the morning but...

Good morning   We saw some renewed USD weakness take hold yesterday afternoon which helped push GBPUSD up from 1.2230 to a high of 1.2360...

Good morning   The US dollar softened yesterday as one of Trumps officials confirmed tariffs would not be fully introduced on day one,...

Good morning   A couple of pretty big events taking place, the first being the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas which has seen both...

Good morning   US retail sales were mixed yesterday with a lower than expected headline partly offset by a revision higher to the...

Good morning   US inflation yesterday came in pretty much in line with expectations, indeed the core reading was actually a touch lower...

Good morning   UK inflation this morning offered a welcome relief, coming in lower than expected with headline CPI at 2.5% and core at...

Good morning   A quiet day yesterday as I’d expected, I’m pleased to say that for the time being my concerns over further GBP falls have...

Good morning   A very warm welcome to 2025, indeed this morning is a touch warmer than many we’ve had since the turn of the year, the...

Good morning   Three of the nine BoE officials voted to cut rates yesterday, not enough to win so rates are held at 4.75%, but enough to...

Good morning   The Fed did indeed cut rates 25bps to 4.5% as widely expected but the US dollar did push higher and US equities slumped as...