Pound Sterling Price News and Forecast: GBP/USD moves little as traders adopt caution
|GBP/USD steadies around 1.2500, downside risks appear due to dovish mood surrounding BoE
GBP/USD halts its three-day winning streak, trading around 1.2490 during the Asian hours on Thursday. The Pound Sterling (GBP) could face downward pressure amid expectations that the Bank of England (BoE) will resume its policy-easing cycle, likely lowering interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) to 4.5% later in the day.
The BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is anticipated to vote 8-1 in favor of a quarter-point rate cut to 4.5%, with one member possibly suggesting that rates should be left unchanged for another meeting. Read more...
GBP/USD cautiously bullish ahead of BoE rate call
GBP/USD found some bidding action amid a broad-market easing in the Greenback. Market sentiment is drifting into the high end as investors recover from the early week’s trade war fears, and Cable traders are buckling down for the wait to the Bank of England’s (BoE) latest rate call.
US ADP Employment Change figures came in stronger than expected in January, showing a net increase of 183K in payrolls, beating the expected fall to 150K from December’s revised print of 176K. ADP job figures are a shaky forecast of US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) due at the end of the week, but the upswing is adding to investor confidence that the US economy remains on firm footing. Read more...
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