Brexit Articles and Whitepapers

The Bank of England left interest rates unchanged at its May meeting. Markets had largely written off any probability of an increase following the BOE Governor’s BBC interview in late April where he alluded to weaker Q1 growth and Brexit uncertainty delaying the prospect of higher interest rates

Global growth enters 2018 on a strong footing with confidence surveys at multi-year highs in many regions and inflation expectations still tame but without fears of deflation hindering investment decisions

The primary driver of the recent rise in UK swap rates has been a more hawkish tilt from certain members of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee

They say that breaking up is hard to do but it doesn’t always need to be messy and depends on both sides willingness to cooperate in their common interests

Whether 2016 was the beginning of the end to the financial crisis that has dominated economics and politics for the best part of the last decade is not yet crystal clear, but what is certain is that the events of the last 12 months will have a profound impact on both geopolitics and the global economy for the next decade and perhaps beyond