Market Update
- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Bank of England, Currency, Dollar, Economy, EUR, Fed, GBP, Inflation, Rate Cuts, Sterling, UK, Uncategorised
- March 22, 2022
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Uncertainty. If there’s one word to describe the sentiment of FX and global asset markets right now that is it. As expected, President Lagarde’s speech today had no real effect on rates today stating that “we are not seeing the signs of stagflation currently”. Although that might be true for the current time period, that’s […]
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- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Rate Alerts
- March 21, 2022
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A quick recap of last week. We saw the Fed raise rates to 0.5% and the Bank of England follow suit raising rates to 0.75% both events widely anticipated by markets and priced in. The tonality for both central banks however were far from similar, the fed Chair Jerome Powell was extremely hawkish on the […]
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- March 21, 2022
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A quick recap of last week. We saw the Fed raise rates to 0.5% and the Bank of England follow suit raising rates to 0.75% both events widely anticipated by markets and priced in. The tonality for both central banks however were far from similar, the fed Chair Jerome Powell was extremely hawkish on the […]
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- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Rate Alerts
- March 18, 2022
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This week we have seen markets show their full strength as we saw both the Fed and the BoE hike rates by 0.25% in attempts to battle inflation in both economies. Yesterday we say the Bank of England hike rates by 25 bps with an overall official vote of 8-1, in favour of the hike […]
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- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Bank of England, Currency, Dollar, Economy, EUR, Fed, GBP, Inflation, Prime Minister, Sterling, UK, Uncategorised
- March 18, 2022
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This week we have seen markets show their full strength as we saw both the Fed and the BoE hike rates by 0.25% in attempts to battle inflation in both economies. Yesterday we say the Bank of England hike rates by 25 bps with an overall official vote of 8-1, in favour of the hike […]
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- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Rate Alerts
- March 17, 2022
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Yesterday evening saw the first of 2 Central Bank policy meetings with The Fed Reserve moving forward with a rate rise of 25 bps, the first rate hike taken by The Fed since 2018. With inflation currently sitting near 8%, a 40 year high, and inflationary pressures effecting prices and potential supply of commodities such […]
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- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Bank of England, Brexit, Currency, Dollar, EUR, Fed, GBP, Inflation, Prime Minister, Rate Cuts, Sterling, UK, Uncategorised
- March 17, 2022
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Yesterday evening saw the first of 2 Central Bank policy meetings with The Fed Reserve moving forward with a rate rise of 25 bps, the first rate hike taken by The Fed since 2018. With inflation currently sitting near 8%, a 40 year high, and inflationary pressures effecting prices and potential supply of commodities such […]
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- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Rate Alerts
- March 16, 2022
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Anticipation is at its highest amongst Investors as we await an expected rate hike to 0.5% today from the Fed, in a lacklustre attempt to get inflation under control which is at a 40 year high. Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs see a further 7 rate hikes ahead for the Fed’s this year with expectations […]
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- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Bank of England, Currency, Dollar, Economy, EUR, Fed, GBP, Inflation, Rate Cuts, Sterling, UK, Uncategorised
- March 16, 2022
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Anticipation is at its highest amongst Investors as we await an expected rate hike to 0.5% today from the Fed, in a lacklustre attempt to get inflation under control which is at a 40 year high. Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs see a further 7 rate hikes ahead for the Fed’s this year with expectations […]
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- Posted by Shyam Gokani in Rate Alerts
- March 14, 2022
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The British pound fell to a 16-month low against the U.S. dollar, ahead of monetary policy updates from the Bank of England and Federal Reserve later in the week. Both the BoE and Fed are seen raising their main interest rates by 25 basis points at their respective meetings taking U.S rates to 50 bps […]
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