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Eurozone inflation eases further than expected

By Craig Erlam Inflation in the eurozone fell below 3% in October, with energy and food prices helping to push the headline number even lower than expected. While this is undoubtedly good

31st October 2023

Markets/World

Markets bounce ahead of US NFP

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Market Analyst at FXTM Asian shares staged a rebound on Thursday following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight as plunging oil prices and weak US jobs

5th October 2023

Markets/World

Yen not far from recent lows despite intervention talk

By Craig Erlam It’s been a wild couple of days in financial markets from a potential FX intervention to interest rate decisions and vast amounts of economic data, not to mention a

5th October 2023

Markets/World

Yen spikes, EC downgrades eurozone growth

By Craig Erlam A relatively quiet start to the week from an economic data perspective, but we saw some decent moves in the markets, particularly in the Japanese yen. The yen jumped

12th September 2023

Markets/World

Soft landing hopes fizzle, King Dollar is back

By Edward Moya US stocks ended the week lower lower as Wall Street gets anxious over what the Jackson Hole Symposium on August 24-26 might do to soft landing hopes. Just look

21st August 2023

Markets/World

BoJ surprises, strong French GDP, Gold to post losses

By Naeem Aslam The Bank of Japan has stolen the thunder with its monetary policy move, and it has done what it does best, which is create a massive knee-jerk reaction in

28th July 2023

Markets/World

Ending the week in the red

By Craig Erlam Stock markets turned red again on Friday after spending the earlier part of the week in recovery mode, with yields around the world once again on the rise. The

21st October 2022

Markets/World

Another day, another Prime Minister

By Craig Erlam Another UK Prime Minister has resigned and I’ve now lost count of how many Chancellors we’re going to be up to if Jeremy Hunt is also replaced next week.

21st October 2022

Markets/World

Flashing green

By Craig Erlam Asian stocks were flashing green on the second day of trading, while Europe opened in a similarly positive manner as sentiment continues to improve, albeit from very low levels.

18th October 2022

Markets/World

The mother of all U-turns

By Craig Erlam Another turbulent start to the week, albeit a positive one broadly speaking, with equity markets around 1% higher in Europe after a decent start to the week in Asia.

17th October 2022

Markets/World