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The GBP/USD pair hit levels under 1.2000 for the first time since March 2020. The pound remains under pressure even as market participants and traders expect a rate hike from the Bank of England on Thursday.The pound weakened earlier on Tuesday following UK employment data. Brexit concerns and also the …

The Bank of England will raise interest rates in June by only 25 basis points and continue in the same lane in future meetings despite soaring inflation, a Reuters poll of economists found. The recent poll showed that “all but one of 56 economists expected the BoE to deliver a …

Inflationary pressures are expanding and have remained undesirably high, which is a major challenge; Lagarde added that economic activity would be affected in the short term due to higher energy costs as the wars in Ukraine and recent lockdowns in China have made the supply chain in a worse. Lagarde …

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), is scheduled to deliver her remarks on the monetary policy outlook at a press conference at 12:30 GMT.

On Thursday, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) governing council decided to keep its benchmark deposit rate at -0.50%, as unanimously expected by market participants. The bank also said that it intends to raise interest rates by 25 bps at the July meeting, after having ended its Asset Purchase Programme (APP) …

The Eurozone economy expanded by 0.6% on the quarter in the three months to March of 2022 vs. 0.3% prior, the final revision confirmed on Wednesday. The market consensus was for a reading of 0.3% in the reported period. On an annualized basis, the bloc’s GDP rate rose by 5.4% …

The US economy added 390,000 jobs in May, according to the latest Non-farm Payrolls (NFP) report released by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics on Friday. That was above the median economist forecast for a gain of 325,000 jobs, though slightly lower versus April’s 436,000 gain (revised up from 428,000).

The Bank of Canada (BoC) lifted interest rates by 50 bps from 1.0% to 1.50% on Wednesday, a move that had been expected by most analysts, with a minority calling for a larger 75 bps hike.

Canadian real GDP expanded at a pace of 0.7% MoM in March, according to the latest data release by Statistics Canada on Tuesday. That was above the median economist forecast for a 0.5% MoM pace of expansion but down from February’s 0.9% MoM growth rate.

The Federal Open Market Committee minutes have been released which are so far sending the US dollar DXY index a touch softer.At the May 3-4 meeting, the Fed hiked rates the expected 50 bp to 1.0% and laid out plans for aggressive Quantitative Tightening to begin in June. There is …