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GBP Mid-day Analysis
The Pound has failed to benefit from improving economic views toward the US and perhaps some of theinitial pressure today comes from the surprise decline in Halifax March House prices.
GBP Mid-day Analysis
The Pound also appears to have lost favor and has seen some chart damage overnight. DisappointingUK service sector PMI growth and news that consumer credit-card borrowing was off sharply,
GBP Mid-day Analysis
The Pound forged an inside range early today, with prices gradually sliding down and away from theMonday highs. With the Pound supposedly falling back in the wake of “slower growth” in home prices for March,
GBP Mid-day Analysis
The Pound has generally clawed out positive action on the charts over the last two weeks, but thePound is under initial pressure this morning because of disappointing
GBP Mid-day Analysis
While the Pound is being held back by strength in the Euro and Swiss, generally positive globaleconomic views have left the Pound sitting just under the recent highs.
The Week Ahead in FX
In the week ahead, investors will be looking to Friday’s U.S. nonfarm payrolls report for March for further indications on the strength of the labor market,
Weekly CFTC Trader Positioning Data
Relative monetary policy and global growth expectations havebeen the primary drivers of this week’s shifts in sentiment. Theultimate signal from the FOMC has been a more robust outlook—both for the US and globally,
GBP Mid-day Analysis
The path of least resistance is pointing upward in the Pound, as a shift toward macro economic optimism was seen in the wake of stimulus promises from the Chinese.
GBP Mid-day Analysis
The Pound has regained its leadership status with sharp gains on the charts overnight, but positive UKretail sales readings have clearly given the Pound a more definitive edge in
Finding Value in FX Carry
Global FX carry trades, where one buys the highest interest rate currencies and sells thelowest interest rate currencies across G10 and EM, have had a torrid time since 2008.
GBP Mid-day Analysis
We think the Pound has forged an interim low and that the March downtrend pattern is poised to bereversed. In fact, comments from the BOE overnight that wage growth is starting to pick up,
GBP Mid-day Analysis
While overall macro economic sentiment has improved and that might serve to firm up support under thePound, the presence of the weakest annual CPI inflation rate since 2009,
