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01/08/2017 – This Morning’s Exchange Rates

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• August 1, 2017
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Pound climbed to its highest levels against the dollar since mid-September today, as data showing UK manufacturing growth recovered from a seven-month low in July eased concerns about an economic slowdown.

This morning’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey climbed to 55.1, exceeding the 54.4 consensus in a Reuters poll of economists, helped by the biggest influx of new export orders since 2010.

The numbers should hearten policymakers at the Bank of England, which will make a policy decision and release its latest quarterly Inflation Report on Thursday, and should soothe investors’ fears that economic growth is deteriorating rapidly after a sluggish start to the year.

Only two out of 80 economists polled think the BoE will raise its main interest rate on Thursday from a record-low 0.25 percent

A run of weak data has – along with deep uncertainty about the impact of Brexit on the economy – cooled speculation that the BoE is poised to start removing its crisis-level stimulus, which followed a series of hawkish remarks by policymakers at the banks in recent months.

GBP/EUR 1.1177

GBP/USD 1.3203

GBP/AED 4.8443

GBP/AUD 1.6539 

GBP/CAD 1.6472 

GBP/CHF 1.2755

GBP/NZD 1.7656

EUR/USD 1.1801 

GBP/ZAR 17.437