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Today's economic news and market action:

  • Risk appetite soured last week …
  • On the currency front, sterling was on the front-foot …
  • There were large swings in the yen amid volatile trading …
  • Elsewhere, the euro has firmed & the dollar weakened in early trading …
  • Sees EUR/USD open near the $1.09 threshold … 
  • GBP/USD is close to the $1.24 mark …
  • EUR/GBP is in the top half of 87-88p …
  • USD/JPY is in the lower half of ¥130-131 …
  • Flash PMIs (Jan) and US core-PCE inflation (Dec) the highlights this week …

 
Today's Opening FX Rates
 
      % Change
      Day* End 2021
EUR/USD 1.0896   0.56 1.81
EUR/GBP 0.8789   0.42 -0.62
GBP/USD 1.2393   0.11 2.45
GBP/EUR 1.1371   -0.42 0.63
*versus Previous Day's European Open

 


 
 
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AIB Economist's Weekly Market View - 17 January 2023
 
 

Having been very much to the fore for the first three quarters of last year, the dollar lost some ground in the final months of 2022. A perfect storm of rising US interest rates and bond yields, and a surge in commodity prices drove the greenback higher up until around the end of September.


 
 
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Some Silver Linings in Dark Clouds

The World Bank, in its latest Global Economic Prospects report released earlier this month, warned that the global economy is perilously close to falling into recession this year.


 
 
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