Title: A GBP/USD bounce off 2-1/2-month lows, keeps the red around 1.3800 marks

Jul 01, 2021 12:57:50 PM GMT

By: AnalysisWatch

The GBP/USD pair has controlled to get better round 40-forty five pips from -and-half-month lows and turned into ultimate visible buying and selling with modest intraday losses, simply above the 1.3800 mark.

Following the preceding day's true -manner fee moves, the GBP/USD pair met with a few clean deliver on Thursday and prolonged its current rejection slide from the important thing 1.4000 mental marks. The British pound remained at the shielding amid issues approximately unfold of the greater contagious Delta version of the coronavirus and turned into similarly forced via way of means of the Bank of England (BoE) Governor, Andrew Bailey’s comments.

The GBP/USD pair dropped to the bottom stage when you consider that mid-April, albeit controlled to locate a few assist close to the 1.3765 location amid a modest US greenback pullback. The tried recovery, however, lacked any bullish conviction and runs the hazard of truly petering out alternatively quick in the wake of the Fed's marvel hawkish shift.

It is really well worth recalling that policymakers delivered ahead the timetable for the primary post-pandemic price hike and signaled price hikes via way of means of the cease of 2023 on the cease of the June meeting. Apart from this, a robust pickup in the US Treasury bond yields has to lend a few assist to the USD and cap the upside for the GBP/USD pair.