GBP/EUR - British Pound Euro

Yesterday’s squeeze in favour of the euro has been a long time coming. Helped handily by a rally in Greek bank shares and an improvement in the country’s bond yields,...

• ByJeremy Cook
• •Feb 04, 2015

For once, the opinion polls in Greece turned out to be roughly correct and the leftist Syriza party has taken the Greek elections by storm. Needing 151 seats overall to maintain a...

• ByJeremy Cook
• •Jan 26, 2015

Euro opened the week lower and breached 1.11 against dollar after Greek leftist Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras claimed victory on Sunday's election. At the time of writing, the...

• ByActionForex
• •Jan 26, 2015

Reasonable people can debate some of the details, but there was little doubt that last week's big event, the ECB's asset purchases, was widely anticipated. Nevertheless, what is...

• ByMarc Chandler
• •Jan 26, 2015

Yesterday ended up being a day of largely met expectations. The ECB's decision to announce a plan to purchase assets in a bid to create inflation and stimulate demand in the...

• ByJeremy Cook
• •Jan 23, 2015

It must be something in the water, or maybe in the chocolate.The Swiss National Bank shocked markets on January 15th, suddenly lifting a cap on the value of that country’s...

• ByAllAboutAlpha
• •Jan 20, 2015

After Thursday’s and Friday’s market moves courtesy of the Swiss National Bank, the weekend came as a bit of a relief. I think we have had enough FX news for the whole...

• ByJeremy Cook
• •Jan 19, 2015
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Currency market volatility has continued its recent increase in the past 24 hours as the data picture from the world economy continues to surprise. Yesterday’s legal issues...

• ByJeremy Cook
• •Jan 15, 2015
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The scene looks set for the US Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates in 2015 – a shift in the monetary cycle, which could unleash more turmoil in currency and other...

• ByMahiFX
• •Jan 04, 2015