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Sterling climbed to its strongest level in over two years, reaching $1.3230 after rising more than 1% on Friday. The gain followed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's comments that the time had come to cut rates, which widened the expected policy gap between the two central banks.
A broad dollar decline following Powell's signal supports dollar-priced commodities and makes imports from dollar-linked markets cheaper for UK buyers.
bloomberg.comVassilis Karamanis, Greg Ritchie, Alice AtkinsAug 23, 2024Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 1,637 past bearish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (39% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.3%), and -0.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
