Last week was pretty eventful with both the ECB and the Fed confirming 25 bps rises as expected, the key takeaways is that the Fed will probably pause for now and the ECB plans to continue. Following the Fed meeting we saw Western Alliance’s bank shares drop pretty steeply overnight, reigniting concerns in the U.S banking sector, just minutes after the Fed reiterated how strong and resilient the U.S banks were.

The USD lost further ground against major currency pairs overnight after The Federal Reserve raised their Interest Rates by a further 25 basis points, but crucially stated that they no longer anticipate further rate increases will be needed to bring inflation under control.

With just a 4 day week ahead of us in the UK before the King’s Coronation, we have a relatively volatile week on the cards with Central Banks as the key focus- which could present some great opportunities for those buying and selling Sterling.

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This morning we see the retail sales figures released for the UK. Expectations were that it would continue to drop off, especially after seeing inflation levels stay above the 10% mark earlier in the week.

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Sterling extended gains above $1.24, moving closer towards an over 10-month high of $1.2546 touched on April 14, after data showed the UK labor market remained tight in the three months to February.