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Market Update and the new Pound Coin

20
Mar

We asked the team at HiFX for their thoughts on the current market situation and here’s their Market Commentary as of 19/03/14.

“A reasonably quiet week so far for GBP is about to turn very loud today with unemployment data, the budget announcement and Bank of England minutes all due out.
As we speak unemployment data has just come in, staying at 7.2% with a fall in unemployment of 63,000. Bank of England minutes due out shortly and the market seems to be hoping for more hawkish comments coming from the MPC on the state of the economy so we could see movement if this expectation does or doesn’t appear.

The budget is due to start at 12.30 today. As far as budgets go this one seems to have stayed relatively secret and so we may see the odd surprise but see below for a summary of expected headlines:

  • A new £1 coin as our current one is over 30 years old and prone to counterfeit apparently.
  • Increase in tax free personal allowance to £10,500.
  • Government cap on welfare spending.
  • Various tax breaks and incentives for businesses to improve building, investing and exports.”

For all your foreign exchange requirement you can contact the HiFX team at their Costa Blanca office via telephone +34 965 978 952 / +34 711 762 922 or by email costablanca@hifx.co.uk

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