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FX round-up: Wuhan virus and rate cut speculation weigh on sterling
Friday 24 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - Sterling was trading on the back foot at the end of the week amid a risk-off environment as investors took stock of the new China coronavirus and the impact that it might have on that economy, and positioned themselves ahead of the central bank meetings in the UK and US that were scheduled for over the week ahead.
Lagarde and Mnuchin clash on energy transition strategies
Friday 24 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - ECB President Christine Lagarde and US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin have clashed at the World Economic Forum in Davos over how the world should transition to cleaner energies.
Euro area PMIs reveal signs of stabilisation in manufacturing, economists say
Friday 24 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - Economic growth in the Eurozone failed to accelerate yet again at the start of 2020 but the worst of the downturn in manufacturing looked to have passed and business confidence across the single currency bloc notched up a 16-month high, according to the results of a key survey.
Three Chinese cities on lockdown in attempt to contain coronavirus
Friday 24 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - The Chinese government decided on Thursday to lock down three cities home to 18m people in an attempt to try and contain the new deadly coronavirus.
US officials believe trade deals with UK and EU possible by year-end 2020
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - The US has raised the prospect that trade deals with both the United Kingdom and the European Union could be in place by year-end 2020.
In face of new challenges, ECB launches year-long strategy review
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - The European Central Bank kicked-off a comprehensive one year-long review of its goals, strategy and policies in light of the structural changes that the euro and global economies had undergone since 1998 and the multiple and in many cases new challenges that it was facing.
US leading index drops but continues to point towards modest economic growth
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - A closely-followed gauge of economic activity in the States turned slightly lower at the end of 2019, but continued to point towards growth of around 2.0% in the early part of the current year.
Weekly US jobless claims continue to undershoot forecasts, economists upbeat
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - A key leading indicator of joblessness in the US continued to point to better-than-expected conditions.
Mnuchin tells Greta Thunberg to study economics before preaching
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin attacked teen activist Greta Thunberg and said she should study economics at college before lecturing the US.
ECB's Lagarde refuses to pre-empt policy strategy review, positive on trade relations with US
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - The European Central Bank's recently arrived boss refused to be drawn on her own views regarding the monetary authority's policy strategy review, which it had formally launched just an hour before.
ECB keeps policy unchanged, strategy review details to follow
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - The European Central Bank kept all its main policy settings unchanged on Thursday and announced the launch of its long-awaited strategy review.
Siemens boss says Trump will offer support for reconstruction projects in Middle East
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - Siemens's boss said that US President Donald Trump would offer his support for the company in the reconstruction projects planned for Iraq and Syria.
Experts say Wuhan coronavirus closer to seasonal influenza
Wednesday 22 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - The far lower mortality rate of the new coronavirus identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan means that it is unlikely to have anywhere near the significance for the US economy of the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, Capital Economics said.
Trade truce sees investor sentiment soar in Germany
Tuesday 21 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - German economic sentiment has surged to a near five-year high, research published on Tuesday showed, as trade tensions between China and the US began to thaw.
Donald Trump calls for global cooperation, labels impeachment 'hoax'
Tuesday 21 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - America's President trumpeted the country's achievements thus far in his first presidential term while calling on all countries to work together.
IMF sees tentative signs of a bottom in global manufacturing and trade
Monday 20 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - The world's economic watchdog offered a less glum view of economic prospects, but said that many risks remained and that were still few signs of a turning point in the data.
World's billionaires hold more wealth than 4.6bn people combined - Oxfam
Monday 20 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - A new report from Oxfam claimed that the world's 2,153 billionaires had more wealth between them than a combined 4.6bn people.
Brussels warns UK against diverging from EU rules
Monday 20 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - Officials from the European Union warned businesses to "prepare for the worst" after UK Chancellor Sajid Javid's announced that the UK would diverge from EU rules after Brexit.
Warm weather hits US industry in December, but economists remain sanguine
Friday 17 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - Industrial production in America softened unexpectedly in December but mainly due to unusually warm weather.
December US housing starts surge past forecasts
Friday 17 Jan 2020
(Sharecast News) - Homebuilding activity in the States blew the doors of economists' forecasts in December, but economists were quick to point out that such strength was just not sustainable and some of the underlying data appeared to point in that direction too.

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FX News

FX round-up: Wuhan virus and rate cut speculation weigh on sterling

Lagarde and Mnuchin clash on energy transition strategies

Euro area PMIs reveal signs of stabilisation in manufacturing, economists say

Three Chinese cities on lockdown in attempt to contain coronavirus

US officials believe trade deals with UK and EU possible by year-end 2020

In face of new challenges, ECB launches year-long strategy review

US leading index drops but continues to point towards modest economic growth

Weekly US jobless claims continue to undershoot forecasts, economists upbeat

Mnuchin tells Greta Thunberg to study economics before preaching

ECB's Lagarde refuses to pre-empt policy strategy review, positive on trade relations with US

ECB keeps policy unchanged, strategy review details to follow

Siemens boss says Trump will offer support for reconstruction projects in Middle East

Experts say Wuhan coronavirus closer to seasonal influenza

Trade truce sees investor sentiment soar in Germany

Donald Trump calls for global cooperation, labels impeachment 'hoax'

IMF sees tentative signs of a bottom in global manufacturing and trade

World's billionaires hold more wealth than 4.6bn people combined - Oxfam

Brussels warns UK against diverging from EU rules

Warm weather hits US industry in December, but economists remain sanguine

December US housing starts surge past forecasts

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