BOE Holds Rates, Japan fuels helicopters

 

 

  • BOE Holds rates unchanged in a surprise.

    • Markets were expecting a cut from 0.50% to 0.25%

    • GBP soars 2%
    • Gilts sell off

Full morning report HERE

  • Bernanke is telling Japan to use Helicopter Money

    • suggests perpetual zero coupon bonds
    • Yen has biggest weekly drop since 1999
  •  UK PM May appoints Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary-  Trump has competition it seems in the non PC department
    • compared EU to Hitler, Clinton to mental hospital nurse
    • said Kenyan ancestry affected Obama view of U.K.
    • He referred to Africans as “picaninnies” with “watermelon smiles”
  • London House prices at 7 year low now

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