Posts Tagged ‘ECB’
Will Thursday’s Decision Provide Further Strength for Sterling?
GBP After falling to multi-month lows against the Euro after inflation data, Sterling has started to regain some ground, outperforming most G10 currencies last week. Most of the movement for GBP|EUR & GBP|USD was driven by factors on the other side of the pair rather than Sterling itself. However, this could change next week, depending…
Read MoreIs BoE’s Monetary Policy finally working?
GBP Following the release of UK inflation figures on Wednesday, Sterling dropped against all G10 currencies. Official inflation for June was confirmed at 7.90%, a 3.0% drop compared to market expectations and a 0.80% drop from last month’s figures. These figures are still way above the BoE’s target rate of 2%, however, is the drop…
Read MoreBoE Rate Hike Expected
GBP The pound rallied by just under a percent last week versus the dollar as markets priced in 15bp of tightening by the Bank of England by the December 2021 meeting with a further 75bp expected next year. This led to cable being at it’s highest since the start of October which has taken the…
Read MoreInflation, Fuel and Politics
GBP The pound finished flat against the dollar last week but with 1% of volatility as the markets navigated both the Fed and Bank of England. Against the euro, the pound lost 0.1% but like the dollar also had 1% swings in the currency pair. Sterling weakened off at the beginning of the week as…
Read MoreMarkets Await Fed and BoE
GBP The pound managed to stay flat against the euro but lost half a percent to the dollar in a week which saw strong inflation numbers but poor retail sales. It would seem markets are starting to weigh up the possibility of global stagflation as prices rise but economic output fails to increase. One of…
Read MoreMarkets Watching Inflation Closely
GBP The pound had a mixed week increasing against the euro by 0.4% but decreasing by 0.2% against the dollar. On Thursday the pound had its strongest one-day gain against the euro since July, this came off the back of comments from Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey that BoE policymakers are actively and openly…
Read MoreFed Minutes Likely to Boost Dollar
GBP The pound had a poor week as it lost ground versus every G10 currency, bar the Swiss Franc. Versus the dollar and euro, sterling depreciated by 0.3%. It appears that the bullish sentiment on the pound has lost support over the last week, as markets start to question the Bank of England’s optimistic outlook,…
Read MoreAll Eyes on the ECB
GBP The pound finished the week down against both the dollar and euro despite the change in tone from the Bank of England and better than expected CPI figures. Two speeches last week from Monetary Policy Members Ramsden and Saunders were more hawkish than the markets expected, and sterling rallied off the back of it,…
Read MoreSuper Thursday Expected to Drive Volatility
GBP The Pound had a difficult week, losing ground against every G10 currency apart from the New Zealand Dollar. Against the Euro, Sterling finished flat but lost a quarter of one percent to the US Dollar. The Pound has suffered due to uncertainty around the full reopening of the economy on the 21st of June.…
Read MoreCovid Variants Could Dampen Pounds Potential
GBP The Pound was the top performing G10 currency last week, increasing by 0.8% against the Dollar and just under 1% versus the Euro. GBP/EUR closed the week just above 1.16 following its best week since February. Sterling benefited from an expiry of election related political risks, as well as first quarter GDP data that…
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