UK trade deficit

The total trade deficit - the difference between the export and import in goods and services - narrowed £16.0 billion to £4.3 billion in the second quarter of 2019 due largely to falling imports of goods, reports the ONS.

August 9,2019

German IP

Germany's key industrial sector shrank in June, according to fresh data, leading to growing speculation that the economy could enter recession in 2019.

August 7,2019

UK not heading for emerging market status

 

Joshua Roberts at JCRA - an independent financial risk advisor - puts the recent decline in Pound Sterling and the UK's heightened political uncertainty into context saying comparing the UK with emerging market economies is misjudged, damaging, and discourteous.

August 6,2019

Services PMI

The latest UK services PMI came in stronger than analyst expectations thanks largely to a pick-up in new orders from overseas.

August 5,2019

Uk manufacturing sector

The UK's manufacturing sector remains in contractionary territory according to the latest survey of the sector.

August 1,2019

Gold price analysis

“Beyond a period of near-term consolidation we think gold should rise again” - UBS.

July 19,2019

Retail sales figures for the month of June took the financial markets by surprise Thursday when revealing a sharp increase in spending on the high street, giving number-crunchers in the City reasons for cheer as most had feared that the economy contraced in the second-quarter. 

July 18,2019

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