Pound Sterling Price News and Forecast: GBP/USD declines despite Bailey hawkish comments

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GBP/USD retreats from 1.3760 to 1.3710 despite increasing bets of a BoE’s hike rate

The British pound is sliding during the New York session, down some 0.23%, is trading at 1.3712 at the 2time of writing. Surging energy prices, higher inflationary pressures witnessed on the last CPI readings in developed country’s economies, and central banks tightening monetary policy dented the market sentiment.

GBP/USD

Overview
Today last price	1.3745
Today Daily Change	0.0018
Today Daily Change %	0.13
Today daily open	1.3727

Trends
Daily SMA20	1.3621
Daily SMA50	1.3716
Daily SMA100	1.3815
Daily SMA200	1.3847

Levels
Previous Daily High	1.3766
Previous Daily Low	1.3709
Previous Weekly High	1.3773
Previous Weekly Low	1.3568
Previous Monthly High	1.3913
Previous Monthly Low	1.3412
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	1.3731
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	1.3744
Daily Pivot Point S1	1.3702
Daily Pivot Point S2	1.3678
Daily Pivot Point S3	1.3646
Daily Pivot Point R1	1.3759
Daily Pivot Point R2	1.379
Daily Pivot Point R3	1.3815

Bank of England goes nuclear on rates, but the pound doesn’t follow suit

The major news at the start of this week is that the Bank of England are now expected to be the first of the major central banks to hike interest rates, after BOE Governor, Andrew Bailey, said on Sunday that a surge in energy prices would have a longer-lasting effect on inflation, which raises the chances of “embedded expectations”, which is why he was using his platform to signal that the Bank of England “will have to act”.

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