12 March 2024 Pound Under Pressure Following Soft Wage Outturn

UK wage and employment data undershot market expectations, boosting the odds of a June rate cut at the Bank of England and resulting in a broadly weaker British Pound.

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11 March 2024 Pound Sterling in Soft Start, UK Salary Inflation Nears Three-year low

The British Pound was softer on the day a much-watched survey of the UK job market confirmed an ongoing trend of cooling wage increases just a day ahead of the official ONS wage data release.

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08 March 2024 Pound Sterling Rises Against Euro as ECB Speakers Push April Rate Cut

The Pound to Euro exchange rate extended gains to 1.1727 after members of the European Central Bank's Governing Council (GC) raised the prospect of an April rate cut.

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06 March 2024 Spring Budget Offers Pound Sterling a Platform From Which to Advance

The British Pound has come off its pre-budget highs against the Euro and Dollar as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt rolls out the Spring Budget, which won't bother the Bank of England.

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06 March 2024 Pound Sterling To Find "Fiscal Tailwinds" from Budget

The Spring Budget could be the trigger for further "cyclical outperformance" in the British Pound says Bank of America.

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05 March 2024 The Pound "Shouldn't be Haunted by the Ghosts of 2022" Says Deutsche Bank

On the eve of the UK budget, a Deutsche Bank analyst tackles the question of whether GBP investors ought to fear the return of the "bond vigilantes" and a repeat of the 2022 episode that saw UK bonโ€ฆ

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05 March 2024 Pound Sterling Looks For a Hunt Boost

The British pound could be set to benefit if Wednesday's Spring Budget is considered both responsible and stimulatory to the economy, say foreign exchange analysts we follow.

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