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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 10 February 2021 - Retail sales boost to recovery hopes
Description: "The economy also showed signs of improvement with like for like retail sales increasing by 7.1% year on year in January versus a 4.8% rise in December. This comfortably beat analysts’ predictions.
The GDP estimate for the three months to January will be released later this morning with estimates of a 0.9% increase the average of analyst’s predictions.
Investors' net long Sterling positions continue to increase as the market's view that the UK will be among the leaders if not the first to be able to lift its lockdown.
Friday will see the release of a raft of data that will provide evid...