- At some stage, the Conservative Party is going to have to decide what its Brexit policy actually is. Then the Labour Party will do the same, and then the British People will measure whether that policy really does Take Back Control.
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Pressure Builds
Commentary in the past 24 hours has revolved around Draghi’s indifference to Euro strength and the US administration’s “strong, not strong” US Dollar policy. For the record, let’s just bookmark those 28 seconds of President Trump telling us “ultimately I want to see a strong dollar“.
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Read more >EUR/USD higher = Liquidity Taps Off
Oh the poor US Dollar. How different it all was a year ago, where Trump was inaugurated to the lilting tones of a thousand sell-side analysts calling EUR/USD to parity.
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Read more >Nothing Much to See Here, Please Move Along Part 2
In the midst of a US government shutdown and an underwhelming victory for the SPD in their vote to join a Grand Coalition, the market just shrugs its shoulders and carries on.
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Read more >Good inflation
With higher bond yields a-go-go, and equity markets continuing to make record highs, doesn’t this feel like a little bit more than just Goldilocks? Doesn’t it feel, whisper it, like a kind of proper boom?
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