The international calendar is crammed this week with key inflation data in the UK, US and China, and preliminary GDP estimates across most of the Eurozone and Japan. The reverberations of Japanese Q4 ......

Although last week’s MPC meeting passed without event, growing nervousness over the UK rate outlook continues to weigh heavily on sterling rate sentiment. The Dec-11 short sterling contract has ......

Corporate bond spreads have fallen significantly in the past 6 months or so, mirrored by increases in equity prices. In turn, net capital issuance has risen, including in the UK where private ......

The UK monetary policy debate is particularly interesting at present. We expect the vote from the recent October MPC meeting to have been a three-way split, with Andrew Sentance and Adam Posen (and ......

The G7 meeting at the weekend will be the main focus for FX markets coming into the week, given all the talk of “currency wars”, the recent BoJ intervention and the comments from Juncker ......

Unemployment remains high in all of the advanced economies and in some is still rising.Almost a year into the economic recovery, unemployment in the eurozone rose to 10.1% inJuly 2010. It seems that ......

The US employment Report will be the main focus this week. While we may see apositive number, this is down to census jobs and private sector employment seemslikely to be similar to last month, ......

There have been some important developments on the UK inflation front recently. Firstly, the ONS has published a consultation document outlining proposed changes to the way mortgage interest payments ......

There have been some important developments on the UK inflation front recently. Firstly, the ONS has published a consultation document outlining proposed changes to the way mortgage interest payments ......

The biggest week of Q4 and anticipation of choppy trading  conditions has already beentranslated in a substantial mark-up in volatility, but the worsening in US confidence data is a new trading ......