Sterling collapsed to an all-time low in intra-day trading on Monday. The weakness follows UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s Friday mini-budget announcement and weekend comments that more tax cuts are coming. The Bank of…
Italy’s right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni of the far-right Brothers of Italy party –which also includes the League and Forza Italia – secured 44% of the vote in Sunday’s general election. Italian…
The German Ifo Business Climate Index weakened further in September, sliding from 88.6 to 84.3, below expectations of a milder deterioration to 87.0. The current situation and expectations sub-components ticked down 3.0 points…
In its post-meeting statement on Thursday, the Bank of England highlighted that the MPC is prepared to “respond forcefully” to any changes to the inflationary outlook. On Friday, the new UK government unveiled a…
As expected, the Bank of England raised the Bank Rate by 50bps to 2.25% on Thursday. Three of the nine MPC members preferred a more aggressive 75bp hike, while one member favored a more modest 25bp increase. The BoE noted that…
Sweden’s Riksbank hiked its policy rate by a full percentage point to 1.75% on Tuesday, a more aggressive move than the 75bp hike anticipated by the consensus. The central bank also revised up its policy rate forecast. It…
BCA Research’s European Investment Strategy service’s Rotation Maps framework suggests that the Euro Area energy sector stands out as a good underweight candidate in equity portfolios over the next twelve months,…
Cable fell below 1.14 in intra-day trading on Friday (incidentally, the 30th anniversary of Black Wednesday). Though it recovered some of the losses, it ended the week at a 37-year low. New evidence that the UK economy is…