Stock markets continue to be underpinned by the run of good data from economies emerging from the great lockdown imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19.
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The EU-UK trade talks have made very little progress over the first half of the year.
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Perhaps the most interesting takeaway from last week’s Bank of England policy meeting was buried deep in the minutes.
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Concerns about a rise in new cases of the coronavirus in parts of the US and a fresh outbreak in China triggered talk of a ‘second wave’, have dented ...
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The recovery in stock markets from their mid-March lows continues unabated despite the plethora of weak economic data and the cautious approach of governments to ...
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Survey data that are beginning to come through on the main economies for May warrant careful interpretation.
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Economic data for the first quarter of the year are beginning to roll in from across the world and show big falls, with output plunging in March as the coronavirus ...
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Eurozone leaders met again last week for discussions on designing a recovery plan to tackle the enormous Covid-19 economic crisis and the European Commission has ...
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Economic growth forecasts continue to be lowered as the scale of the challenge posed by the coronavirus outbreak globally becomes clearer, writes Oliver Mangan
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It is now clear that the coronavirus will result in a major hit to global growth in 2020, with many economies entering recession in the first half of the year, writes ...
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The OECD’s analysis of the impact of the coronavirus on the world economy published last week sets out two scenarios. In the base case, the epidemic peaks ...
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After a stellar 2019, we warned in this column at the start of the year that investors seemed very complacent and were “ill-prepared for shocks, meaning they ...
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The dollar retains the upper hand on foreign exchange markets, with the currency hitting three-year highs on a trade-weighted basis in recent days.
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Range trading has been a dominant feature of foreign exchange markets for more than a year now, especially for nearly all the major currencies.
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There are green shoots despite the slowdown in global economic
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The UK’s departure from the EU last Friday was a tame enough affair in the end.
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Last year, monetary policy returned to an easing mode, in response to a marked slowdown in global growth, and the IMF estimates that the monetary easing added 0.5% ...
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We have entered a period of remarkably narrow trading ranges for most of the major currency pairs.
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The CSO has now published national accounts data measuring the performance of the Irish economy for the first three quarters of 2019.
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The dollar has been at elevated levels for the past five years.
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Over the autumn, stock markets rallied strongly, bond yields rose, and traders scaled back their expectations of further policy easing by central banks.
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Sterling has remained very range-bound against the euro in the past couple of weeks, after making big gains in mid-October on news of an agreement on a revised Brexit ...
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The revised Brexit deal may have been signed off at the summit of the EU leaders last week, but getting it through the UK parliament is proving to be quite a challenge. ...
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The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), in its latest update on the world economy, said the prospects for global growth have become increasingly ...
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Even though the clock is ticking down towards the UK’s exit date from the EU at the end of this month, Brexit remains as clear as mud.
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A marked improvement in risk appetite has been a noticeable feature of financial markets this month, leading to a sharp rise in bond yields with equities making ...
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Sterling regained more ground last week as UK politicians moved to close off the prospect of a no-deal Brexit at the end of October.
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The labour market figures for the second quarter of 2019, published by the CSO last week, are the latest data to show that while the Irish economy is still performing ...
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Sterling came under downward pressure again over the summer when Theresa May quit as British prime minister.
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Most of the major currencies have remained quite range bound in the past few months.
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Buoyant stock markets continue to climb higher. The Euro Stoxx-50 is up 17% so far this year-to-date.
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