The Times is running a fortnightly series of briefings to coincide with Target Two Point Zero, the Bank of England’s competition for sixth-form students run in conjunction with this newspaper. The contest challenges students across Britain to play the role of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and recommend the best level for interest rates. This week: Quantitative Easing.
From The Telegraph: Bank of England says financiers are fuelling an economic 'doom loop' On the eve of the G20 meeting of finance ministers in Scotland, Andy Haldane, the Bank's executive director for financial stability warned that the relationship between the state and banks represents a "doom loop" which will keep inflicting crises on the public unless arrested. The warning, which follows...
Is this true? Technically this is also wrong: the (Tobin) tax can be applied to sterling without any agreement from any other nation. All sterling eventually flows through the Bank of England. Taxing it is easy. You see, I’ve got this feeling that this is the way the US thought about dollars once upon a time. So they [...]
» Read the complete articleDespite no change in bank base rate since the beginning of March, one in ten variable rate savings accounts have reduced – choose an offset loan to actually make something of your money in this dismal low-rate environment. Even though the Bank of England’s base rate has stayed at 0.5% for most [...]
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The inflation expectation embedded in TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) has jumped in recent weeks after a long slumber. After jawboning about hyper-inflation for two years, traders may finally be beginning to actually worry about it. FT: Market expectations for inflation in the US and UK have reached their highest levels since late last year amid growing investor demand for government...
A quiet week ahead on the economic front with the only notable UK data being the unemployment figures due on Wednesday with the claimant count expected to tick higher. Also on Wednesday we get the Bank of England Inflation report which will be very much in focus with expectations seemingly growing that inflation will start to rear its ugly head sooner rather than later. With the amount of slack in...
- Technical Insight - November 9, 2009 (FinancialWire) (Investrend Information Syndicate) As of Fridays close, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE: UUP) was down 0.48% on average volume, while the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (NYSE: UDN) was up 0.03% on relatively low volume. FinancialWire(tm) contributor, Brewer Investment Group, offered he following insights, going...
- Technical Insight - November 9, 2009 (FinancialWire) (Investrend Information Syndicate) As of Fridays close, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE: UUP) was down 0.48% on average volume, while the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (NYSE: UDN) was up 0.03% on relatively low volume. FinancialWire(tm) contributor, Brewer Investment Group, offered he following insights, going...
Five house hunters per property Demand is far outweighing supply in the UK housing market, with five house hunters for every available property.. Bank of England says financiers are fuelling an economic 'doom loop' The banking sector must be overhauled as profoundly as in the wake of the Great Depression or financiers will "game the state" over and over again, the head of the Bank of England's...
Player not working? Click here. The foreign exchange outlook podcast from TorFX. Bringing you up to the minute currency market news. Today: The Dollar declines against the majors. The Pound's resolve will be tested again this week, as the focus switches to the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report on Wednesday. You can download the podcast directly from here , subscribe to the blog here or...
Sterling held its own last week as the week revolved around the meetings of the various central banks. In the UK the Bank of England kept interest rates on hold which was as expected. But the BoE did increase their programme of quantitative easing by £25bn to £200bn. From past experience this should have led to sterling weakening across the board. But two factors seemed to benefit sterling....
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Smart Currency Exchange - Daily Currency Rates for Business Users Daily Inter Bank Currency Exchange Rates 9th November 2009 Currency Rate EURO 1.120 US$ 1.677 CHF 1.693 CAN$ 1.784 AUS$ 1.810 ZAR 12.486 JPY 151.06 HKD 12.999 Comments: Sterling held its own last week as the week revolved around the meetings of the various central banks. In the UK the Bank of England kept interest rates on hold which...
GBPEUR/GBPUSD Following on from last week, the Pound rallied against the Dollar and the Euro on Thursday, after the Bank of England raised its bond-purchasing program by just £25 billion, less than economists had predicted and for the third time since March. Policy makers are trying to cement the economic recovery, with the UK economy still languishing in the worst recession ever recorded. The...
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