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22/09/2017 – This Morning’s Exchange Rates

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• September 22, 2017
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This morning’s exchange rates are listed at the bottom of this article. The prices are for indication only. Please contact us for live rates.

Sterling traded within a tight range against the dollar today while investors waited for a speech by British Prime Minister Theresa May in which she is expected to try to rescue stalled Brexit talks.

Investors will watch to see if May can offer enough to European Union negotiators to persuade them to move talks forward, without angering members of parliament who have the power to destabilise her government.

One of the issues May is expected to address in her afternoon speech in the Italian city of Florence is Britain’s exit bill, which Brussels has demanded progress on before talks can progress.

Sterling had risen against the dollar on Thursday after the BBC reported May will say Britain is willing to pay 20 billion euros ($24 billion) to the EU during a post-Brexit transition period, but only if it has access to the bloc’s single market.

The temptation is to say that because much of the content of the speech has been widely reported on already, that the impact on the currency will be small.

Investors will also be watching out for the debt rating from credit ratings agency Moody’s later in the day.

GBP/EUR 1.1305

GBP/USD 1.3549

GBP/AED 4.9725

GBP/AUD 1.7031  

GBP/CAD 1.6646  

GBP/CHF 1.3121

GBP/NZD 1.8527  

EUR/USD 1.1974 

GBP/ZAR 17.771