On 27 August the Office for National Statistics published its first revision to the performance of Britain’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter of the year. The initial estimate of 1.1% growth had looked pretty good. It was not in the same category as Germany's...

During most of the first half of 2010 the cut and thrust of sterling against the euro had a political origin of one sort or another. It was also sterling that did most of the cutting and thrusting: from a low of €1.0950 in early March...

.According to foreign exchange and international money transfer specialist Moneycorp, prospects are poor for the British real estate market, as 25% of potential first-time buyers consider purchasing a property overseas...

If the advent of a coalition government has brought a sea of change for British politics it has also brought one for the pound. After initial scepticism that a hung parliament would spell anything other than gloom for the country...

Sterling appreciates against the euro to levels last seen in December 2008. Sterling’s appreciation against the euro continued last week with a new 18-month high recorded at €1.2114 ...

We are in one of those ‘plus ça change’ (plus c’est la même chose) situations again.  Since early November the pound has meandered, more or less aimlessly, in a six-cent range between €1.0950 and €1.1550, going nowhere.  The €1.1250 median has been the rough...

February was not quite a one-way track for sterling but it spend much more time on the retreat than it did pushing ahead. It had looked perky in late January as the problems of Greece...

Sterling’s year got off to less of a bang than that which attended 2009′s new-year party. Instead of picking up ten cents in the first ten days, as it did a year earlier, it was not until almost two weeks into January that the pound began to build up steam. After a one and a half cent rally the day before new year's eve...

It is unlikely that 2009 will go down in the records as an annus mirabilis for sterling but things could have been a lot worse. With the sterling/euro exchange rate at €1.02 on new year’s eve a year ago it looked very much as though they were about to get very nasty indeed. The pound had lost ten cents a month for three months...

Yet again the euro managed to avoid the headlines and thereby the attention accorded to its higher-profile peers.