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The ambitious negotiations for a new bilateral Free Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom and Canada could offer businesses exciting opportunities on both sides of the Atlantic – but only if they have the right foundations in place.

A dismal set of business activity PMI numbers out of the US sent the dollar sharply lower on Tuesday afternoon, with the greenback reversing its gains from earlier in the week against most of its major counterparts.

The euro crashed back through parity against the US dollar on Monday, with ‘risk off’ trading and concerns over rising energy prices in Europe causing the common currency to be one of the worst performing major currencies in the world yesterday.

US bond yields have now retraced the fall that followed the positive inflation report from the week prior.

The dollar was broadly stronger against most currencies on Thursday, as investors appeared to have a rare change of heart over this week’s FOMC meeting minutes.

Another surprise to the upside in this morning’s UK inflation report, a trend that we have become all too familiar with in the past year or so, elicited a rather muted response in currency markets.

Heightened fears surrounding a slowdown in global growth, and possible recessions, were once again back dominating the narrative in the FX market on Monday.

UK posts two consecutive quarterly deficit in the trade of goods with the US for first time since 1998 – driven by strong USD and surging fu...

Wednesday’s softer-than-expected US inflation print provided some relief for markets, sending the US dollar lower and risk currencies sharply higher.

Sterling fell fairly sharply against its major peers on Thursday afternoon following a very doom and gloom assessment of the UK economy from the Bank of England.

We expect the Bank of England to deliver a 50 basis point interest rate increase at this Thursday’s MPC meeting, though the decision among policymakers on the size of the hike is unlikely to be a unanimous one.

The US economy now meets the barest technical definition of a recession, and Federal Reserve hikes are now fully dependent on inflation and labour data meeting to meeting.
