Jeremy Cook's Opinion & Analysis
A complete archive of Jeremy Cook's articles, including current analysis & opinion - Page 10
GBP – Have we been shopping?Another day, another data point that shows, at least in the short term, that the Bank of England was correct in its decision to raise interest rates a fortnight ago....
GBP – No news, but new bluesThere may have been more than a few headlines yesterday charting the fall of sterling but as anyone who has been reading our updates will know, the last thing that we...
Sterling cracked through the 1.30 level yesterday against the US dollar, as much a product of sterling weakness as of dollar strength. The low of 1.2920 was an 11 month nadir for the currency pair...
USD: Dollar ignores politics and growthThe dollar strengthened momentarily on Friday following the best quarterly growth numbers since 2014. The 4.1% overall expansion number was a little below...
GBP: Brexit plans unravellingThe week started with Cabinet resignations and is ending with a government that could soon be hamstrung by rebels within its own party. Following the publication of the...
GBP: How many battles can May flight?Thank god sterling does not trade on the impact of football results, you could argue that it should have traded a lot lower in the past had it done so. With the...
USD: Trump announces another load of tariffs on Chinese goodsWe’re back to talking about tariffs after the US Trade Representative released a fresh list of $200bn worth of Chinese products that...
EUR: Draghi 4-0 EuroThe euro was given a kicking yesterday by the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi despite his announcement that the central bank, if the economic data warrants it, end its...
GBP: Conservative concessionsPolitics and economics combined to send sterling all around the houses yesterday, although GBP/EUR and GBP/USD are little changed from where we opened up yesterday.
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USD: Fed more important for dollar than Trump/Kim summitDonald Trump and Kim Jong Un have announced that they have reached an ‘agreement’ following their talks in Singapore although the...