GBP flat vs. USD, buying and selling slightly below Monday’s multi-year excessive – Scotiabank

Pound Sterling (GBP) is coming into Wednesday’s NA session unchanged vs. the US Greenback (USD), buying and selling flat round 1.3500 slightly below Monday’s multi-year excessive, Scotiabank’s Chief FX Strategist Shaun Osborne notes.

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“Home developments have been restricted and there are not any main financial releases scheduled within the calendar. BoE Chief Economist Capsule can be talking at 11am ET, forward of Gov. Bailey on Thursday. Capsule has maintained a bias to ‘cautious and gradual’ cuts whereas feedback from the Governor have been restricted. Markets are pricing a maintain for the following assembly on June 19 and 35bpts of cuts by December.”

“The pattern from January is bullish and GBP/USD is at present buying and selling slightly below its multi-year excessive reached on Monday. Momentum is bullish and the RSI’s present studying of 62 remains to be nicely shy of overbought ranges nearer to 70. We glance to near-term assist within the mid-1.34s and resistance within the higher 1.35s.”