Friday afternoon was volatility distilled as US Non-Farm Payrolls once again proved to be a sentiment driver of massive proportions. The figure fell to -651k a... Read More >
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Last week there was generally a lack of local data and new economic information released In New Zealand. What was released was the ANZ commodity price inde... Read More >
Both the Bank of England and the ECB elected to cut rates by 50bps yesterday and both published comments alongside their decisions commenting on the dire state ... Read More >
The first Thursday of the month means only one thing here at World First: ECB and Bank of England rate decisions. Today could be a turning point in the fortune ... Read More >
Data from the UK did indeed mirror the US yesterday as Construction PMI in the UK fell to 27.8 against an expectation of 34.2. Construction spending in the U... Read More >
Massive falls on global equity markets continued to keep risky assets under pressure during Monday's trading session as technical and fundamental indicators sho... Read More >
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The latest National Bank Business Outlook confirmed the parlous state of the New Zealand economy. It showed that headline business confidence fell 6 points ... Read More >
Friday's volatility was once again caused by the financial services sector; in the UK, US and EU.
HBOS, the country's biggest lender of mortgages and now par... Read More >
Details of the UK's Asset Protection Scheme were published overnight. Summarising the reams of mumbo jumbo and jargon it boils down to a facility that will allo... Read More >
As we predicted Sterling was put on the rack yesterday as investors banked profits from long positions ahead of the publication of the Government's Asset Protec... Read More >