Wednesday, December 18, 2019

GBP/USD is last down 0.4% 12/18

Investors should avoid trading sterling in the spot market for the rest of 2019 given the risks surrounding Brexit, says BMO Capital Markets. "With calendar year-end rapidly approaching we'd prefer to stay away from trading spot, especially because it seems that FX investors have suddenly become a lot more sensitive to 'bad news' since last week's U.K. election results," BMO FX strategist Stephen Gallo says. GBP/USD is last down 0.4% at 1.3073 and EUR/GBP rises 0.1% to 0.8501 due to concerns that the Brexit transition period won't get extended to allow more time for a U.K.-EU trade deal to be agreed in an environment with a "pronounced lack of FX market liquidity,

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