Bailey speech: We are facing a weak growth environment in the UK

Dhwani Mehta FXStreet

Bank of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey participated in a panel discussion titled "Preserving and enhancing open financial markets" at an event hosted by Bruegel, in Brussels, on Tuesday.

Key quotes

We are in a period of heightened uncertainty.

We are facing a weak growth environment in the UK.

"Careful" language was chosen to highlight increased uncertainty.

Critically important that we preserve multilateral framework for global financial system.

Latest UK labour data looks on the quantity not far out of line with what we expected.

Latest UK pay growth has risen less than we expected.

We haven't seen anything in latest labor data that fundamentally changes our view on the outlook.

Bond term premia are being moved by US comments on tariffs.

Agree with US Treasury Secretary's comments on wishing to see smaller moves in term premia.

Market reaction

At the press time, GBP/USD is trading 0.16% lower on the day, easing to test 1.2600.

British Pound PRICE Today

The table below shows the percentage change of British Pound (GBP) against listed major currencies today. British Pound was the weakest against the Swiss Franc.

	USD	EUR	GBP	JPY	CAD	AUD	NZD	CHF
USD		0.22%	0.17%	0.27%	0.05%	0.01%	0.51%	-0.04%
EUR	-0.22%		-0.06%	0.05%	-0.17%	-0.21%	0.28%	-0.26%
GBP	-0.17%	0.06%		0.13%	-0.12%	-0.15%	0.34%	-0.20%
JPY	-0.27%	-0.05%	-0.13%		-0.24%	-0.27%	0.20%	-0.33%
CAD	-0.05%	0.17%	0.12%	0.24%		-0.04%	0.46%	-0.09%
AUD	-0.01%	0.21%	0.15%	0.27%	0.04%		0.49%	-0.06%
NZD	-0.51%	-0.28%	-0.34%	-0.20%	-0.46%	-0.49%		-0.54%
CHF	0.04%	0.26%	0.20%	0.33%	0.09%	0.06%	0.54%

The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the British Pound from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the US Dollar, the percentage change displayed in the box will represent GBP (base)/USD (quote).

Author

Dhwani Mehta

FXStreet

Residing in Mumbai (India), Dhwani is a Senior Analyst and Manager of the Asian session at FXStreet. She has over 10 years of experience in analyzing and covering the global financial markets, with specialization in Forex and commodities markets.

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