(eToro Blog) In the broader Eurozone area, the earlier release of Purchasing Managers’ Indices for January offered investors a few surprises, most welcome but one decidedly not. In the United Kingdom, the Office of National Statistics read for January’s manufacturing PMI was reported higher at 52.1 from a revised reading of 49.7 and besting the [...]
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Pound Sterling Traders Bullish Resolve Holds Despite Mixed Data
(eToro Blog) Early this morning, the GfK Group released its key consumer confidence index for January, which is a gauge of confidence levels for the U.K.’s economic activity among the 2000 respondents. The reading improved to -29 from -33, beating analysts’ forecast of -32 yet far off the May “peak” of -21. The managing director [...]
U.K. Edges Closer to Double Dip and OpenBook Goes Bearish on Sterling
(eToro Blog) News that the U.K. economy is edging closer to a double-dip recession is putting pressure on the Pound Sterling, which fell against the U.S. Dollar to 1.5581. On the OpenBook, traders are primarily short the GBP/USD. Guru santosh, who is generally very attune to the U.K. economy, only managed to eke out a [...]
