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GBP: Brexit-free zone Investors might moan about the Brexit palaver but, take it away, and they have nothing left to play with. With the deadline pushed back to 31 October – or 22 May or [...]

GBP: Anticlimax Britain did not crash out of the EU on 12 April. As expected, the Prime Minister asked for a postponement to the end of June. Also as expected, the European Council said a short [...]

GBP: Wins 1 – 3 Losses It was a busy little week for sterling. On three days it lagged the other major currencies and on one day it was in the lead. Ranges of two cents or so against the [...]

GBP: Fairly meaningful vote Today parliament will be asked for the third time to consider the prime minister’s EU withdrawal bill. Because of the House of Commons speaker’s [...]

GBP weekly currency update GBP: Apocalypse Later It was an interesting week for British politics and the pound. The Brexit process stumbled again and the screws were tightened on sterling in a [...]

GBP weekly currency update GBP: Sterling is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it The pound almost achieved the near-impossible feat of flipping between first and last position five days in [...]

GBP weekly currency update GBP: Data? What data? Hard UK economic evidence was thin on the ground and such numbers as did appear were either unimportant or unnoticed by investors. The purchasing [...]

GBP weekly currency update GBP: Proud pound obliterates opposition After leading the other major currencies for two days in succession the pound emerged as the top performer for the week, the [...]

GBP weekly currency update GBP: Brexit will be alright on the night Sterling had an almost impossibly successful week, strengthening by an average of 1.7% against the other major currencies and [...]

GBP weekly currency update GBP and Brexit: Nothing has changed To say sterling had a better week than the South African rand is to damn it with faint praise: even the Turkish lira had a better [...]