What has driven the recent sharp rally in US Dollar? Ebury's market analysis team take a closer look at the reasons behind US Dollar strength.

Predictions place that a rate hike could be put on hold in Thursday’s Bank of England MPC meeting, while concerns over a snap Italian election rise.

Investors anticipate a cautious tone from Draghi's ECB meeting, while Sterling continues to hobble along behind the dollar amid rising US bond yields.

The Federal Reserve is overwhelmingly expected to increase the interest rates again in the United States next Wednesday, and up to four times in 2018.

Result of the weekend’s Italian election capped Euro gains, causing investors to fret about the rise in Euroscepticism in Europe.

Dollar bulls will be hoping that the release of Wednesday's Federal Reserve meeting minutes reignites some form of recovery rally in the greenback.

Investors overlooked Wednesday’s lofty inflation numbers that suggested that Federal Reserve could raise rates on four occasions in the US in 2018.

What appeared to be a foregone conclusion a few weeks ago is now looking like a much closer and uncertain affair as the UK goes to the UK General Election.

The Euro continued to surge upwards on Tuesday following on from the French Presidential Election, while the Yen fell sharply on renewed risk appetite.

Yesterday’s awaited press conference from the president-elect kept markets on their feet last night. Some of the currencies affected were MXN, EUR and GBP.

The languid summer trading of the past two weeks suddenly perked up on Friday afternoon, as the long-awaited speech by Fed Chair Janet Yellen hit the wires.

Sterling tanked 1.2% yesterday, falling to its weakest position in 31 years against the US Dollar after Mark Carney claimed that Brexit risks were ‘beginning to crystallise’.