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Interesting Week ahead in UK MPC and PMI in Focus
An extremely quiet week lies behind us in terms of UK economic releases and the only major political development really was opposition leader Ed Miliband’s rather desperate attempt at his party’s annual conference to a) overcome his personality deficit, b) create a brand for himself and c) revive a moribund Read More Interesting Week ahead [...]
Euro Crisis Back in Focus as Greece Troubles, ECB Decision Ahead
Fundamental conditions for the euro have not significantly improved over the past months, policy and monetary officials have simply been able to buy time. In this lull, traders have found an uneasy normalcy that acclimated them to the troubles facing certain EU members (Greece, Portugal, Ireland and now others) as well as the region’s banking [...]
Focus Turns To Bernankes Speech At Jackson Hole
The US dollar steadied against its major counterparts as focus turns to Friday’s speech by the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at the Jackson Hole. Investors around the world will be closely watching Bernanke’s words and whether a third round of quantitative easing will be announced. Against the Japanese yen, the Read More Focus Turns To [...]