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Accendo’s Foreign Exchange Forecasts, Tuesday 18 April

Macro observations After a long Easter weekend, European markets have returned to an announcement from UK Prime Minister Theresa May that she is calling a snap UK general election for 8 June. This has come as a surprise for many political commentators, given that an election was not scheduled to take place until 2020 at the latest,…

The calm after the strike

Heightened geopolitical risk following overnight US military intervention in Syria offers a timely reminder about trading and investing. It also provides us with a welcome positive takeaway that markets would appear to be overlooking into the weekend. One that could ultimately help reignite the Trump trade to record highs. Last night’s market reaction reminds us…

Oil lifts UK Index out of its Shell

I’m sure you were just as surprised as me to wake up to news that the US had launched a series of overnight airstrikes targeting an airfield in Syria. Perhaps even more surprising, however, was the muted market reaction. Far from selling off significantly in response to heightened political tensions, global indices took only a minor…

Accendo’s Foreign Exchange Forecasts, Monday 3 April

Macro observations April and the second quarter of 2017 are set to begin with a bang, although hopefully not literally as within days of the triggering of Article 50 former political figures within the UK establishment suggest a Falklands-esque defence of Gibraltar should Spain make a play for the British enclave during Brexit negotiations. Theresa…

Brexit and beyond: What should you watch?

What a momentous week for the UK. With the official triggering of Article 50 now out of the way, Brexit is set to grip the financial world for the next two, and potentially more, years with a constant stream of changing information as Britain departs from the EU. But what should you be watching as the…

Keeping faith in the UK Index

March may have proved a little more volatile than recent months, however, the UK’s UK 100 is still expected to move into April 1.5% to the good. A very respectable performance given last week we were almost back to breakeven, having sold off from fresh record highs the week prior. This month has thus offered…

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