All major currency economies seem now to be displaying inflation, mostly caused by supply constraints, for whatever reason. Will the transitory period be long enough that permanent inflation expectations take hold before the supply starts to come ...

Euro area annual inflation up to 3.4%

What? So, you think it's possible that "bls" stands for something else?

Producer Price Indexes - August 2021

She's spot on.

UK seeing a ‘massive adjustment’ in labor market, LSE director says

Good points made above. With my past Manufacturing hat on, it's like a knife through the heart watching so many gigantic sheds appear across prime agricultural land, knowing full-well it's a statement both of the state of UK-based manufacturing but ...

Almost 50 shops a day disappear from High Streets

Any currency pair and the word "guarantee" should never be in the same sentence.

EURUSD set to rebound but no guarantees yet

Glad to have read this interesting piece.

Western socialism and Eastern capitalism

Arguably this experiment is already being run across the UK, where furloughing and such other schemes have resulted in the current pickle of a very high unemployment figure but also very large numbers of unfilled positions and a significant portion ...

Universal basic income: Wales' trial 'should include everyone'

The currency markets have pretty-well gone sideways in a narrow band for 2 days. I am sure this is a much longer period of doldrum than usual, pre-FOMC (but prepared to be persuaded otherwise). There have been some indicators of CPI's or other ...

Will the Fed Talk the Talk?

I never had to let go of Brexit as I never had hold of it in the first place. You should know by now I don't dwell on the past but look forward. I am intrigued by your inside knowledge and your moment of 'seeing the light', I must say, even though ...

UK Treasury prepares for bonfire of EU red tape

I saw there was one entry against this thread headline. On the basis that it was an EU-UK axis issue I guessed that the comment would be from one of two people. Bingo! Top of the list guess. Brexit, blah de blah, UK criminals, blah-de blah, EU ...

UK Treasury prepares for bonfire of EU red tape

Lumping all that in together is a bit cheeky, unable to let go of Brexit and work from a new foundation of relativity. The central theory of GBP having made the gains from a successful vaccination program is totally valid and the notion that EUR ...

HSBC: Buy The Euro, Sell The Pound As UK Good Vaccine News Priced In Say HSBC

I agree with both EventsTrader and Barkie on this in that it doesn't make a lot of sense. However, if you think in terms of the major manufactured goods producing countries it makes a little more logic. Just a little.

Treasury Releases Report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading...

One explanation can be deduced if you ask yourself the following question: Which economy(ies) is(are) growing faster, with faster vaccination rates, reduced lockdowns and scope for 'normal' economy operation? EU or USA/UK/Others? (Remember that ...

US retail sales explode in March as consumers use stimulus checks to spend heavily

"WE ARE CAUTIOUS ABOUT PULLING BACK SUPPORT TOO SOON." Or scared witless? Much easier to stay on the path of least resistance, isn't it!

Bullard Says Expects This Will be 'Boom Year' For U.S. Economy

Ah, yes, because Davos (Wo)man knows best and should run the world. Ah, yes, because if you raise your business taxes above the average level of your major competitors, you think everyone else should do the same so that you can keep the same ...

Janet Yellen: This week's IMF and World Bank meetings will be a 'Bretton Woods' moment for the...

I can't imagine any CB being anything else other than cautious, especially as few of them will have had any experience of any circumstances warranting it. How much of an advantage or benefit would first-mover have when all others are still wanting ...

ECB Governor Warns Against Sharp Policy Tilt When Crisis Passes

For the inexperienced this article may have some value but the basic recommendations are true to trading at all times, never mind formal, planned News events. There are as many trading strategies as there are traders, which is actually why the ...

How to Trade Forex News: An Introduction  

Not before time. I was very fortunate to have attended the same school as Alan and I got empassioned by Science in a block of laboratories named in his honour, which was built in the late '60's, around the time the UK Homophobic Laws changed. As a ...

New U.K. Currency Honors Alan Turing, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Code-Breaker

[quote=RossEdwards;13458316]@BJWB .. Why dont you stop over analyzing? You second guess the judgement of professional medical authorities of almost a dozen countries with no medical qualifications and without access to the domestic data on which ...

Is Brexit the end of the first of two unions?

"The Brits did it for years but the fact was it WASNT the EU it was them as they are now beginning to discover." I was with you all the way until that last sentence, which has floored me trying to identify the line of thought. "it was them" So, in ...

European regulator greenlights AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after reports of blood clots