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Big Brexit vote: What do I need to know?

Amazing how many news channels are Anti Trump. What is the point of communications technology if the messages are all of such low quality? I insist to myself to watch Fox News once every day and have done so for 12 years. There is not one memory of ...

Powell plans to serve his 4-yr term, says Trump can't fire him

Sorry, I forgot. New Zealand was the first country to strike a free trade deal with China.

Big Brexit vote: What do I need to know?

Why should weight at the table matter? 'Might is right' got us Hitler, Stalin, Mao tse Tung, S Hussein, Gaddaffi, Assad, Kims, Tojo and HiroHito, Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet, Blanco, and so on. In short big and powerful should not be beautiful and ...

Big Brexit vote: What do I need to know?

I strongly disagree and assert that a crisis, by its nature, is generally unpredictable and not just in economics. But what is most interesting is that the consensus views on macroeconomic and microeconomic policies under market/government mixed ...

Why Economics Must Get Broader Before It Gets Better

I would say 1.10 closer to ball park and 1.50 if clean deal emerges. That's the real environment of forex which politicians tinker with.

Sterling to slide to $1.20 if no Brexit deal agreed - Reuters poll

No surprises here. Trump had an opportunity to build on global growth momentum but dropped the ball. Productivity growth has been damaged very badly for the time being but should reappear by year end barring fresh sources of unorthodox and ...

Little to go on for trade talks as markets look to the ECB

'Next few days.' Sounds familiar. Delay, delay, delay = Remain, remain, remain. There is no substance here to build a case for imminent buy or sell. Interesting politics but toxic for traders.

UK FinMin Hammond: Still Hopeful Deal Can Be Reached With EU In Next Few Days – LBC Radio

The very surprising thing to note (not mentioned) is that short term interest rates (and long term) remain extremely low especially if you try to adjust for where you think we are in the economic cycle. Associated with that low level of interest ...

10 years ago this week, the market hit the climactic bottom of the Great Recession

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McConnell: Senate will vote to disapprove Trump emergency: AP

Its crystal clear. Remain in EU. It's the sole option if MPs against No Deal and against May's Deal. Delay will be like 'Gravity' when Clooney drifts off into space forever. Seriously traders beware current rally. Better wrong and powder dry. Plenty ...

DUP Leader Dodds: We Want Treaty Level Change Before We Wil Support The PM’s Brexit Deal - BBC

The 'too hard' basket has always been the worst management tool. And when a whole country has a hard basket then its currency is not going to do well. The longer the delay of a Brexit decision then the longer the delays of business investment ...

GBPUSD Buyers Target 1.3440 Following Yesterday's Breakout

Surprise? Economic data on Switzerland? Hen have teeth?

Swiss Q4 GDP and KOF Barometer

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.” – Mike Tyson Brexit trading is like leading with your chin with your hands behind your back. Best of British...

Brexit: UK PM May’s spokesman says vote on no deal is by March 13 so could be sooner if there...

It wasn't broke till USA tried to fix it. Roll on 2021.

Global trade growth slows down to 3.3% in 2018

In a world of blindness the one eyed man is king. Countries such as NZ just have to wait impatiently for a return of good sightedness.

NZ dollar stalls awaiting new impetus

Is there any doubt that the UK wants to leave the EU? The EU likes the EU. It wants an economic and political union of member countries which will be extremely powerful, successful, modern and achieve much higher living standards as a union than ...

Sterling up on report May to delay Brexit date, yen firms

Buy the rumour and sell the fact. For GBP bulls this is atrocious news. It's not kicking a can down the road but kicking a cadaver down the road.

CBA says the British pound could spike 2% if Brexit is delayed

Monitoring what the USA is doing is certainly not straightforward either. USA manipulates the quantity of money in its financial system which is the same as influencing the supply of US dollars globally and therefore a key determinant of the USD ...

All the Ways China Influences the Yuan, and How to Monitor Them

The real issue here is that US Admin is now positioning itself to a softer tone with China and Europe (not Iran nor Russia) having taken a harsh tone earlier which it was never going to follow through on. This will allow Trump to appear much more ...

Trump: We have a deal with China on currency manipulation