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Daily Market Brief August 2, 20232 August 2023: House prices continue to fall as mortgage rate rises bite into activity
GBP – Market Commentary Interest rate hike certain - Magnitude in doubt House prices in the UK fell by...
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Daily Market Brief August 1, 20231 August 2023: Consumer borrowing rises to five-year high
GBP – Market Commentary Inflation and interest rates beginning to bite The UK yesterday challenged the accepted logic over...
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Daily Market Brief July 31, 202331 July 2023: Lenders are beginning to reduce mortgage rates
GBP – Market Commentary At last, some relief for borrowers as floating rates are favoured HSBC and Nationwide led...
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Daily Market Brief July 28, 202328 July 2023: Majority of the Economic Council is against further rate hikes
GBP – Market Commentary Bank of England between a “rock and a hard place” A position on the Chancellor’s...
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Daily Market Brief July 27, 202327 July 2023: Government cheered by IMF review
GBP – Market Commentary UK remains in the economic slow lane When the IMF produced its last global review,...
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Daily Market Brief July 26, 202326 July 2023: Three more hikes are expected this year
GBP – Market Commentary The IMF expects the UK to outperform Germany this year The Chief Economist at the...
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Daily Market Brief July 25, 202325 July 2023: Bailey’s pay restraint warnings do not apply to BoE staff
GBP – Market Commentary Mortgage crisis sends homes into deficit There has been outrage over the Bank of England’s...
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Daily Market Brief July 24, 202324 July 2023: Bank expected to be wary of the recession threat
GBP – Market Commentary The Central Bank may revert to dovish hikes at its next meeting Last month's fifty-point...
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Daily Market Brief July 21, 202321 July 2023: Bank of England may rue “what might have been”
GBP – Market Commentary Businesses to face more scrutiny over maintaining margins This week’s publication of inflation data for...
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Daily Market Brief July 20, 202320 July 2023: Headline inflation fell to 7.9% in June
GBP – Market Commentary The Bank of England will be encouraged by its more hawkish policy The headline rate...
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Daily Market Brief July 19, 202319 July 2023: Business leaders join with the PM to “turbocharge growth”
GBP – Market Commentary Sterling rallies as market predicts a fifty-point hike Rishi Sunak has invited business leaders from...
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Daily Market Brief July 18, 202318 July 2023: First predictions see BoE hiking by fifty basis points
GBP – Market Commentary Can we believe Bailey's assertion that the economy can cope with higher rates Not only...