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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 [...]
The Pound has remained stable …
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Pound has remained stable following the release of July’s Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) minutes, trading at 1.13 against the Euro and at 1.61 against the US Dollar on the interbank market.
The minutes showed that the MPC remains split, with 7 members voting to keep interest rates unchanged at 0.50% whilst 2 [...]
Sterling falls following dovish Bank of England
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Pound has depreciated this morning (22/06/11) following the release of the latest minutes from the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The minutes indicated that the Bank of England is less likely to raise interest rates this year, which makes Sterling less attractive to investors seeking higher yielding currencies*.
The minutes show that out [...]
UK Inflation
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
The Pound has spiked higher this morning (17/05/11) following the release of higher than expected UK inflation data. The Consumer Price Index was up month on month at 1.0% and up year on year at 4.5%, compared to 0.3% and 4.0% respectively last month. UK inflation remains stubbornly above the 2% target and the Bank [...]
Interest Rates
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
Today (07/04/11) as expected the European Central Bank (ECB) has raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, the first such increase since July 2008. The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold for the 25th month at their historic low of 0.5% and the Bank’s Quantitative Easing Asset Purchase Programme remains [...]
Stronger than expected UK PMI Services data
Posted in Currency News Currency Updates by mporter
Sterling has spiked higher today (05/04/11) following the release of stronger than expected Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) Services data. The PMI Services data is an indicator of the economic situation in the UK service sector. The reading of 57.1 was better than the expected reading of 52.5 and better than the previous reading of 52.6. [...]
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