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Well who would want to be an MPC member right now? This morning, Ed Balls is cited in the press criticising King’s effective endorsement of the coalition’s austerity measures, they have critics claiming inflation is out of control and even a member of the MPC committee, Andrew Sentence, effectively saying policy has been wrong and [...]

If the ECB were to raise rates quicker than the BOE this has the potential to weigh on the GBP against the EUR although it is worth pointing out that the Euro zone sovereign debt crisis has still not been fully extinguished.

After recent weakness against many of the majors, the Dollar is finally back in vogue it seems, at least looking at its performance over last week and into this week. New and fresh synonyms for ‘risk aversion’ and ‘risk appetite’ are becoming increasingly difficult to fabricate… read more

Risk remains very much the driving force for FX markets as they fret about the extent of slowdown in the US economic recovery and the state of the global economy. Concerns about Eurozone peripheral economies have also intensified again, putting additional pressures on the euro and preventing it from benefiting from Friday’s news of stronger than expected Q2 GDP growth. As result we have the weaker EUR and stronger USD.

BP have just managed to get one PR disaster under control in the Gulf of Mexico, as another pops up with the Americans trying to implicate them in the release of the very resilient Ablesbaset al-Megrahi. America seem intent on pinning all their ills on BP…