How do international currency exchange rates affect you as a homeowner? Many home sellers do not realize how currency exchange rates can affect them in a property market that has a large number of international buyers. Who often think of this being something that relates to banking or big business and only notice its effects […]
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Currency Exchange News November 2021. Market sentiment got hit for six last Friday as worries over the Omicron variant of Covid surfaced. As London is a major world travel hub, the UK is particularly vulnerable to this new variant, and traders fear that the economy would also suffer from further disruptions. The UK Government was […]
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Currency exchange rates and news for 25th October The Bank of England has been unusually verbose recently, with both Andrew Bailey and Huw Pill talking openly about their fears over rising inflation’s levels over the winter months. The markets have taken them at the word, and a move upwards in the UK’s Base rate is […]
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Last week was, to borrow a phrase from football, a game of two halves. The first half was dominated by the price movements in the gas and oil markets and the Conservative Party conference, the second half by speculation over the latest US employment data. The volatility in the gas markets has been extraordinary and […]
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Last week was dominated by the strength of the US dollar, which took sterling down to nearly three cents off September’s highest level, with the euro also giving up a similar amount. Flows into the dollar were encouraged by the rise in yields on US treasuries and its safe-haven appeal as equity markets came under […]
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For much of last week, sterling played second fiddle to the dollar as it bobbled in a relatively tight trading range. This was hardly surprising ahead of what promises to be the busiest trading period since summer ended with both the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England meeting. Sterling ended the week on the […]
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Currency exchange news for buying a house in Spain The dollar weakened all of last week in reaction to the perceived dovish tone from the Federal Reserve, this led to the expectation on tapering in September to fade. The primary beneficiary was the euro which in turn was helped by some seemingly hawkish statements from members of […]
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Last week the markets were overshadowed by the events unfolding in Kabul and across Afghanistan. With chaos seemingly engulfing the country, investors turned tail from riskier assets and sought the safe haven of the dollar. This change in sentiment pushed sterling down almost 1.5% whilst the euro to its lowest level for nearly a year. […]
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Sterling enjoyed a solid week last week, touching its highest levels against the euro for 18 months in quiet trading before retreating on Friday as speculators took their profits. It was helped higher by a solid rebound in Gross Domestic Product which encouraged thoughts of the economy returning to pre-pandemic levels before the year is […]
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As expected, two events dominated the market’s last week, the monthly meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee and the employment reports from the US. The Bank was moderately hawkish and is now firmly in the camp of central banks looking to tighten sooner rather than later. As expected, sterling gained against the […]
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