GBP offers little appeal - Westpac
|GBP offers little appeal even after its recent multi day correction back to 1.3000 amid ongoing background negatives including; 1) persistent Brexit vulnerabilities; and 2) a central bank that is clearly in no rush to begin normalising monetary policy judging by its recent projection downgrades, according to Richard Franulovich, Research Analyst at Westpac.
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“Spec positioning remains short GBP based on CFTC data but at -30k it is the least negative exposure since the Brexit vote, a strong sign markets may have overdone it with brushing away Brexit risk.”
“EUR/GBP looks set to continue its steady ascent past 0.9000 while GBP appears destined for multi day trade below 1.3000 until genuine BoE rate hike risk appears on the 3 month radar.”
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