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Sterling vs gilts

Compare and contrast. The yield on the UK 10-year gilt falls below 3 per cent for the first time since November on Tuesday morning…Continue reading: Sterling vs gilts

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Selling Italy, buying UK [updated]

Compare…. Continue reading: Selling Italy, buying UK [updated]

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A sterling safe haven

Here’s a safe haven idea you may not have thought of. The Great British Krona.Continue reading: A sterling safe haven

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BoE MPC minutes – market reaction and comment

The Great British Krona has taken a knock following the publication of the September MPC minutes. Continue reading: BoE MPC minutes – market reaction and comment

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Don’t blame us for the Great British Krona

Please, please, please don’t accuse the Bank of England of getting involved in currency wars. It hasn’t deliberately deflated the Great British Krona Sterling in the past couple of years. In fact,...

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Why sterling just got splattered

Impressive move following the Bank of England rebooting QE… Continue reading: Why sterling just got splattered

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Sterling corporate bond issuance surges

Sterling corporate bond issuance is soaring, but euro-denominated bond sales are at a six-year low, reports the FT. UK and international companies have sold more than $42bn worth of...

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M&Aybe a reason for a resilient pound?

So, the UK has apparently been the most targeted nation for inbound M&A in 2012 so far, coming out on top in both nominal terms and as a percent of GDP. He argues:Continue reading: M&Aybe a...

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Krona watch

The collapse in sterling is really quite eye-catching.  Just in time for summer… Continue reading: Krona watch

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A sterling inflow

So, would a sovereign downgrade hurt sterling? And if so, how much? It’s hard to model this as historic comparisons are muddy and sterling crosses each obviously carry their own difficulties. Consider...

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The wonders of the FX universe

Dark matter may more commonly be associated with physics, space exploration and Professor Brian Cox, but, according to Deutsche Bank’s FX strategist George Saravelos, there’s a good chance that it’s...

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Thursday con Carney [updated with written evidence]

It’s Carney live. We know George Osborne is frustrated excited. Mark Carney, the next Governor of the Bank of England and the man Osborne once called “quite simply the best, most experienced and most...

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A Minutes worth of sterling freefall [updated]

Here’s the dovish BoE minutes that started sterling sliding (click through for the pdf):Continue reading: A Minutes worth of sterling freefall [updated]

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‘This downgrade is nonsense!’

That’s the considered opinion of Julian D. A. Wiseman (most recently head of UK rates strategy at Société Générale but writing on his personal blog here) on the Monday after Moody’s cut its credit...

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Currency moves contextualised

That’s the euro down 0.4 per cent or so against the dollar and crossing the $1.30 mark. Sterling (aka the Great British Krona) is also continuing its torrid start to 2013, losing another 0.9 per cent...

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With great power etc

This does smack of desperation, doesn’t it? From the FT on Thursday morning: Osborne will use his Budget on March 20 to reinforce his message of “fiscal conservatism and monetary activism” by...

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Breaking bad

Rising inflation expectations and a diving Great British Krona helped another leg downhill on Tuesday by dire production data. Continue reading: Breaking bad

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Krona post the first Carney-val [updated]

That’s sterling off 1.2 per cent at pixel… with the weaker currency and generally loose tone of the statement below pushing the Footsie up some 2 per cent. Here’s the statement that started the dive...

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One very large divergence please (with a dollar chaser)

According to Nomura, since 1980, there are only two periods of economic divergence — between the US and Europe and the UK — comparable to what we are observing currently. Continue reading: One very...

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Sterling’s path, now with guidance

Have a chart from HSBC which, once the key is provided, will explain sterling’s weakness, probably: Before we get there though we should touch back on Carney’s forward guidance thing, of which there...

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