Pound Sterling starts 2024 in the mid-1.15’s against the EUR and mid-1.27’s against the USD, with the main focus this month centered around inflation releases for Europe, United States & The United Kingdom. The markets have prior to Christmas, been fully pricing in Interest Rate cuts for at some point between March & May.
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GBP has softened over the past 24 hours against major currency peers, seeing GBP/USD drop below 1.27 and GBP/EUR fight to stay at the 1.16 level. UK inflation is due out tomorrow morning, with expectations suggesting a minor drop in figures from 4.6% to 4.4% for November.
In a surprising turn of events, the UK economy shrank by 0.3% in October, causing the value of the British pound to decrease. Economists had predicted a steady or slight growth of 0.1% for the month.
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This week is pretty huge on the data and announcement front- with plenty going on in the market since the strong NFP data on Friday which supported the Dollar against the Euro and Sterling into the close.
Sterling hovered around its highest levels in almost three months against the euro today, as markets raised their bets on rate cuts by the European Central Bank, which widened their divergence with the Bank of England.
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