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Money & Finance

Mortgage

Cheaper mortgages

Mortgaes in Spain will get slightly cheaper for anyone whose payments are coming up for their annual or six-monthly review – the Eurozone interest rate has fallen again, to -0.275

covid-19

No tax rises

President Pedro Sánchez has shelved any potential tax rises until after Spain has recovered financially from the Covid-19 pandemic and economic growth has returned to levels prior to the health

Currency

Moneycorp Update -7 July 2020

GBP It was a hard old slog for sterling this week, eventually a seventh of a cent better off against the euro and a quarter of a cent higher against

Euro Weekly – 11 February 2020

After a positive end to last week thanks to the Bank of England holding interest rates, sterling was on the back foot at the beginning of this week due to

Euro Weekly GBP: Last week, Mark Carney met with concerns over post-Brexit monetary policy; the Bank of England stated that it is not a given that a no-deal Brexit would

Euro Weekly

The pound has found perhaps an unlikely ally in EU negotiator Michel Barnier. His optimism about the possibility of reaching a deal and positive outlook on plans coming from the

Euro Weekly Update

Despite some major stats on the UK economic picture being released this week, it was once again Brexit that caused the most movement in the pound. The UK’s economic growth

Euro Weekly The huge losses felt by the Turkish lira at the back end of last week gave sterling some much needed respite. Trump’s punitive tariffs caused a knock on

Euro Weekly The big news for the pound this week was the announcement of the Bank of England (BoE) to finally raise interest rates to 0.75%. Prior to the announcement

Edition 31 July – 6 August

Bank of England deputy governor Ben Broadbent spoke earlier this week about the history and future of QE, but offered no clues as to the outcome of the MPC policy