[B]Intra-Day Market Moving News and Views
13 Feb 2015[/B] [I]06:29GMT[/I]
[B]GBP/USD [/B]- ...... Breaking news, Bank of England's Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe says allegations around HSBC raise serious issues around HSBC's conduct;
-allegations around HSBC are certainly something which could be of relevance to us.
He says impact of oil prices should come out of UK inflation within a year or so - BBC radio.
-UK growth is robust, seeing signs UK has turned corner on productivity;
-euro area in stronger position now to deal with a Greek exit from eurozone, but would be big event;
-at the moment we are not seeing the conditions where we would reduce interest rates, do more QE.
This morning Cable trades steadily in subdued Asian morning after yesterday’s spectacular rally from 1.5209 in Europe to session high of 1.5415 (NY) after the BoE upgraded U.K. growth outlook n raised inflation expectation in its quarterly Inflation Report.
Sterling’s intra-day rally in hectic European trading triggered a series of buy stops above 1.5300, then 1.5360 and later above 1.5400.
Expect sideways move below Thursday’s 5-week high at 1.5415 to continue ahead of European open n with no U.K. data are due out, cable is likely to take cue from intra-day swings in the eur/usd.