Posts Tagged ‘bank of england’
UK GDP & BoE
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Pound has recovered back above 1.20 against the Euro and continues to trade around 1.55 against the US Dollar on the interbank market.
Despite UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data showing that the UK economy contracted by 0.2% in the final quarter of 2011, the initial market reaction suggests that many expected the data [...]
Bank of England Quarterly Inflation Report & Eurozone Bond Yields
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
Today’s Bank of England Quarterly Inflation Report has suggested that UK inflation has peaked and is likely to fall sharply from its current rate of 5% (down from 5.25% in the previous month September) to 1.3% over two years. The Bank has also cut its UK economic growth forecasts to 1% for 2011 & 2012 [...]
Bank of England Minutes
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Pound continues to trade either side of 1.14 against the Euro and around 1.57 against the US Dollar following the release of this morning’s Bank of England minutes.
The minutes showed that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously in favour of increasing its current Quantitative Easing Asset Purchase Programme by a further £75bn [...]
More QE
The Bank of England has extended its programme of Quantitative Easing by £75billion, more than most analysts were expecting.
As a result the Pound has slid from 1.1597 against the Euro to a low of 1.1450 before recovering to 1.15. Against the US Dollar the Pound slid from 1.55 to a low of 1.5273 before [...]
European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The European sovereign debt crisis continues to pose a significant threat to the recovery of the Euro-zone and to the wider global economy. The €109bn bail-out agreed in July for Greece may have averted an immediate significant Greek default and contagion spreading to Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain but the Euro-zone continues to face significant [...]
Bank of England Minutes
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Pound has weakened this morning following the release of minutes from September’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.
All nine members of the MPC voted to keep interest rates on hold at 0.5% as widely expected. Adam Posen was the only member to continue to call for a further expansion of the Bank’s Quantitative Easing (QE) [...]
BoE and ECB
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Pound has appreciated against the Euro following today’s Bank of England and European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate announcements. Both Banks kept their interest rates on hold at 0.50% and 1.50% respectively.
However, in the following ECB press conference, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet struck a more cautious tone, warning that the Euro-zone economy will grow [...]
Currency Update
The Pound has slipped against the US Dollar and the Euro following comments yesterday from Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Martin Weale. Weale stated that the UK risked slipping back into recession and that in his opinion the Bank’s growth forecast of 2.8% and 3.2% for 2011 and 2012 may be too optimistic.
The [...]
BoE Minutes & UK unemployment data
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Pound has fallen this morning following the release of Bank of England Minutes and UK employment data. The Pound now trades back below 1.14 against the Euro and below 1.64 against the US Dollar.
The Bank of England Minutes revealed that all nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to keep interest rates [...]
BoE & ECB
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Bank of England and the European Central Bank have both left their monetary policies unchanged today at 0.50% and 1.50% respectively as growth slows and the European debt crisis spreads to Italy and Spain.
The Pound is up against the Euro trading between 1.14 – 1.15 and in the region of 1.63 against the US [...]
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