Forex Fundamental Analysis

The price of crude oil has fallen on international markets on the strength of suggestions from Libya that it would step up its production.

Since Friday’s Chequers meeting which was intended to distil a unified cabinet position on Brexit and re-impose ministerial “collective responsibility”, the government has been reeling after a series of resignations.

The title of this piece was going to be “Chequers: May’s Neville Chamberlain Moment” an allusion to the attempts by British PM Neville Chamberlain to avert war with Hitler’s Germany, the famous “peace in our time” speech

Last week was a mixed affair for the world’s major stock markets with the FTSE and Nikkei losing ground.

The UK service sector has posted its best rise in activity since October 2017 which has re-ignited speculation that the bank of England will increase interest rates next month.

Donald Trump’s assertion that a trade war will end in an easy win for the USA is being tested from all quarters.

Ever since “the will of the people” was settled on 23/6/16 (except, of course, it wasn’t), the Brexit process has been a political one.

It has been said (but not by anybody in government) that nobody voted for Brexit to be poorer (or, one assumes, unemployed), yet it seems increasingly certain that Brexit will diminish the disposable income of the British people

Last week was a negative affair for the world’s major stock markets with all losing ground. It marked the end of the week, month and quarter.

Markets and business investment was calm before the referendum on EU membership in 2016 because nobody seriously imagined that the UK would vote to leave the world’s largest and most successful trading bloc

The Eurozone finance ministers have agreed to grant Greece a further €15 billion loan which will help it to ensure that it does not default on its current repayments in respect of other support loans that it has had from the EU and IMF.

The rhetoric of the British PM ever since the A50 notice period was triggered has been “no deal is better than a bad deal”.

Last week was a largely negative affair for the world’s major stock markets with only the FTSE making ground, largely on the strength of a weakening Pound (if you’ll pardon the tautology).

Consumers in the European Union are set to pay more for targeted US imports to the bloc from today onwards

Just last week, there was speculation that the most important of 15 amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill aimed at ensuring that parliament had a meaningful vote on Brexit would narrowly be passed by the Commons.