The key reports last week were based on inflation. In the UK we saw the PPI (the factory inflation) fall slightly, mainly attributable to the reduction in crude and commodity prices.

Consumer inflation was higher than expected in both the UK and US, although both BoE and the Feds are expecting them to go up slightly more now before starting to fall.

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Economy 

We have a number of key reports due out this week, in particular the inflation reports for the US, Europe and the UK. We have already seen the

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As mentioned in the latest copy of the newsletter we have decided to change the way we show the stocks to more accurately reflect how we would trade them.

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We have the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and Bank of England announcing their interest rate decisions this week. This may take the main focus although all are expected to be held. Obviously any variation to this will cause quite a response. With oil prices falling back, there may be some relief within each of the committees. With the BoE being the highest and the poor economic data that we have seen recently, there is an off-chance that we may see a cut.  

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