The UK Economy

Yesterday’s session was very bearish for the GBPUSD, approaching significant levels in the development of the general trend of this pair. The GBPUSD is trying to touch the support level at 1.5400, a very important in this pair, considering that in earlier days, the GBPUSD had difficulty to break this level and go higher. If […]

We’re only at midweek, but traders are celebrating on selling floors around the world as the leading indexes continue to rise to lofty and, in some cases, record highs. The Footsie 100 closed up 35.8 points yesterday to reach its highest point since December 2007.  The Nikkei Index broke past the 14,000 mark to 14,180 […]

The GBPUSD has found strong resistance at the psychological level of 1.56, slowing its upward trend in the medium term. ¿Will this pair take up strength to continue in the bullish road or will begin a new bearish road? Just like that as I had said in previous articles, the GBPUSD quite possibly, would find […]

Last week, the GBPUSD had slight movements that failed to overcome the barrier of 1.5600 level. Possibly GBPUSD is forming a lower high pattern to continue the climb but it is very difficult in the medium term due to the level of 1.5600, there is a very strong resistance supported by the 200 day moving […]

A good way to end the week! The sun’s out, there’s a long and hopefully sunny weekend to look forward to and the UK flagship equity index has regained the 6,500 handle – MIA since mid-March. After another round of mixed macro-economic data and major announcements from central banks, on both sides of the pond, […]

Some folks believe that George Osborne stepped a bit over a political “red line” when he gave instruction to Sir Mervyn King and the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England to focus on short-term growth as opposed to financial stability.  King responded to the seemingly unusual demand, saying that the FPC would […]

I’m usually pretty hard on Lloyds (LSE:LLOY), I believe, rightfully so, in light of how the bank has conducted itself over the last decade.  On the other hand, there is no sport in kicking a man who is trying to get back up. When Lloyds released its First Quarter results this morning, its share price […]

Announcing their Q1 results BP have argued that “Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter was $4.2 billion, compared to $3.9 billion in the fourth quarter and $4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2012”. Operating cash flow in the quarter was $4.0 billion, compared with $3.4 billion in the first quarter of 2012. BP […]

The bank will receive shares equivalent to approximately 1.8 per cent of the total issued share capital as part of the deal. Lloyds Banking Group have announced that it will sell its Spanish retail banking operations, including Lloyds Bank International S.A.U and Lloyds Investment España SGIIC S.A.U, to Banco Sabadell, S.A (Banco Sabadell). The sale […]

Brokerage firm argues listing is a “great opportunity” Holly Su Futures Hong Kong Co., a leading futures and options brokerage in China, has joined NYSE Liffe, the European based global derivatives division of NYSE Euronext, as member of the Exchange’s London market. Membership of NYSE Liffe will enable customers of Holly Su Futures to access […]