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  • Trump’s renewed Fed attacks help pound climb to three-year high

    Economics

    The pound has stormed to its highest level against the dollar in over three years after President Donald Trump launched a new tirade of attacks on the Federal Reserve. Sterling rose over 0.6 per cent to near $1.3725 as Trump indicated he was lining up successors for the Fed’s chair Jerome Powell, despite Powell’s term [...]

  • Dollar weakens as ‘confidence in US assets continues to erode’

    Economics

    The US dollar’s traditional safe-haven status has continued to take a bruising, as investors shun the currency amid rising global tensions.  The dollar index (DXY) – which tracks the dollar’s value against a basket of currencies – has tumbled to around 98, compared to nearly 110 at the beginning of the year, as the currency [...]

  • FTSE 100 shrugs off Israel-Iran strikes

    Markets

    The FTSE 100 was unmoved by simmering tensions in Israel and Iran, despite reports that the UK was scrambling to send fighter jets, and conflict in the Middle East was on the brink of a significant escalation with US involvement.  The UK’s leading index was up 0.2 per cent after the first hour of trading, [...]

  • Trump launches fresh attack on Fed as jobs data disappoints

    June 4, 2025

    US president Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell as the latest data paints a gloomy picture of the health of the world’s largest economy. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said that Powell was “unbelievable,” after May data revealed the worst ADP jobs numbers in [...]

  • UBS creates AI tool to monitor interest rate cuts  

    May 21, 2025

    UBS has created an AI model that takes a view on central bank’s hawks and doves when interest rates are set in a bid to cut through the noise of hard-to-read press conferences.  In a new policy paper spanning 38 pages, the Swiss bank revealed that its new tool is adept at “measuring the tone [...]

  • Fed expected to hold interest rates and vex Trump

    May 7, 2025

    The US Federal Reserve will not bring interest rates down until July, Goldman Sachs has predicted, in what may spark a fresh conflict between President Trump and Fed chair Jerome Powell.  The world’s most powerful central bank has held back from making interest rate cuts due to a foggy outlook on what a trade war [...]

  • Argentex shares crash as firm fights to survive

    May 6, 2025

    Argentex shares plummeted nearly 90 per cent in early Tuesday deals as the firm resumed trading on London’s AIM. The embattled currency firm suspended its shares from trading on April 22 after it said its liquidity had significantly worsened as the US dollar weakened. The company then agreed to a takeover from rival IFX on [...]

  • The Fed shouldn’t hit back at Trump, just talk louder

    April 24, 2025

    The problem with Trump’s “major loser” jibes at the Fed isn’t that they’re wrong (though they are), it’s that they’re being heard, says Tim Focas If you closed your eyes and listened to President Trump lambast Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, you might think you were watching this Sunday’s Wrestlemania, not a political announcement. “Major [...]

  • Will the price of gold keep going up? 

    April 22, 2025

    The US-China trade war rumbles on. Investors are digging their trenches. The dollar is losing its force while the price of gold is going ballistic.  A week ago, UBS made what some saw as a bold prediction that gold would reach $3,500 per ounce by December 2025. That milestone has already been hit. Scarred stockholders [...]

  • FTSE 100 down after US stocks slump

    April 21, 2025

    The FTSE 100 opened seven points down on Tuesday morning, following a major US market slump on Bank Holiday Monday. US stock markets took another hit on Monday, with the S&P 500 closing down 2.38 per cent – at 5,158 – while the Nasdaq fell 2.5 per cent and and Dow Jones slumped 2.48 per [...]

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