Blog

---

Ashley Chadwick

Janet Yellen speech to Economic club of New York

Janet Yellen spoke in front of the Economic club of New York on Tuesday (29th March), on the state of the US Economy and Monetary Policy. The  tone of the meeting was more Dovish than was expected.

Read more

---

Ashley Chadwick

One Day Trading Workshop

Met Traders were excited to welcome a number of students from UCL for the second, one day trading workshop.

Once again, everyone seemed to have a great time and as one of the visitors put it, ‘I thought it was well structured and varied in terms of theory and practice. I was surprised about how much we actually got involved with the trading software- it was very hands on, which I liked.’

Read more

---

Ashley Chadwick

Visiting Met Traders

Met Traders were excited to welcome a number of students from the University of Hertfordshire’s Account and Finance Society for a trading workshop.

Read more

---

Ashley Chadwick

FOMC hikes rates

The FOMC raised interest rates on December 16^th, for the first time since 2006. This begins what is expected to be a rate tightening cycle. They raised their target range by 25 basis points to 0.25%-0.5%.

Read more

---

Ashley Chadwick

Cameron to discuss EU membership

Today, Prime Minister David Cameron will meet other EU leaders to discuss changes to Britain’s membership of the EU. Cameron is aiming to alter Britain’s position in the EU, ahead of the referendum to come no later than 2017.

Read more