- The Pound Sterling rebounded firmly from three-month lows against the US Dollar.
- GBP/USD buyers await the US CPI inflation, UK jobs, and GDP data for fresh impetus.
- The daily technical setup shows the tide has turned in favor of the major.
The Pound Sterling (GBP) gradually recovered ground against the US Dollar (USD), lifting GBP/USD from three-month lows to ten-day highs near 1.3500.
Pound Sterling witnessed a bullish reversal
The GBP/USD pair received a double-booster shot in the past week, which helped it to stage a decent comeback, recording its best weekly performance since late June.
The July American labor data disappointment and a slowdown in the services sector intensified concerns over US economic prospects, doubling down on expectations that the Fed will lower interest rates in September.
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Traders are pricing in a 93% chance of a rate cut in September, with at least two rate cuts priced in by the end of the year, the CME Group’s Fed Watch Tool showed.
This dovish narrative remained a drag on the US Dollar, while the latest tariff announced by US President Donald Trump on its major trading partners accentuated economic worries and the Greenback’s weakness.
A Financial Times (FT) report on Thursday, citing a letter from Customs and Border Protection, stated that the United States (US) has imposed tariffs on imports of one-kilo Gold bars.
Earlier on Thursday, Trump’s higher reciprocal tariffs on imports from dozens of countries took effect, with heavy levies on Switzerland, Brazil, and India. The US president also threatened additional tariffs on China and Japan against their oil imports from Russia after charging India with an extra 25% tariff.
Mounting tensions over the Fed’s appointments and, therefore, its independence exacerbated the USD’s pain, aiding the pair’s recovery.
Trump nominated Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Stephen Miran to replace Fed Governor Adriana Kugler. Miran is also seen replacing Jerome Powell when his term ends in May 2026, according to some industry experts.
On the Pound Sterling side of the equation, buyers capitalized on the hawkish Bank of England’s (BoE) split vote of 5:4 in favor of a rate cut on Thursday instead of a 7:2 composition expected.
The BoE delivered on the expected 25 bps rate cut from 4.25% to 4% on ‘Super Thursday, with the vote split showing policymakers remained concerned about still high inflation, even as it cut rates.
According to Goldman Sachs, the vote split in the BoE meeting “implies one of the most hawkish versions of a 25 bps cut that reasonably could have been expected.”
Expectations of the divergence in the monetary policy outlooks between the Fed and the BoE provided legs to the GBP/USD recovery rally.
Watch out for top-tier US and UK economic data
With the BoE event risk out of the way and Trump’s tariff on almost all US trading partners in effect, attention turns to high-impact economic data releases from both sides of the Atlantic.
Monday is a quiet one, setting the stage for a terrific Tuesday as volatility will likely ramp on the UK jobs report and the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) data publications.
On Wednesday, speeches from a bunch of Fed policymakers will fill in an otherwise light data docket.
Traders will eagerly await the preliminary second-quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data of the British economy alongside Industrial Production and Trade figures.
Later that day, the US calendar will feature the Producer Price Index (PPI) inflation data and the usual weekly Jobless Claims.
The Chinese Retail Sales and Industrial Production data will garner some attention early Friday before the release of the US Retail volumes data. The preliminary Michigan Consumer Sentiment and Inflation Expectations data will also be closely scrutinized.
Even as the focus returns to fundamentals, trade headlines will continue to play a pivotal role in driving the GBP/USD price action.
GBP/USD: Technical Outlook
GBP/USD’s daily chart shows that the late July sell-off from the 21-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) lost momentum as dip-buying emerged near the 1.3200 region.
Amid renewed buying interest, the pair recaptured the 100-day SMA and 21-day SMA supports-turned-resistances, now at 1.3360 and 1.3398, respectively.
However, buyers are battling the April 29 high of 1.3445, at the moment, yearning for acceptance above that level on a weekly closing basis.
If that happens, a run back above the 50-day SMA at 1.3504 cannot be ruled out.
Further north, the July 24 high of 1.3589 will be put to the test, above which the next bullish target is located at the 1.3700 round level.
The 14-day Relative Strength Index (RSI) is sitting listlessly above the midline, suggesting that the pair’s recovery will likely have legs in the near term.
In case sellers fight back control, strong support is seen at 1.3360, the 100-day SMA.
A breach of the latter will refuel the downside toward the multi-month lows of 1.3141.
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Inflationary or deflationary tendencies are measured by periodically summing the prices of a basket of representative goods and services and presenting the data as The Consumer Price Index (CPI). CPI data is compiled on a monthly basis and released by the US Department of Labor Statistics. The YoY reading compares the prices of goods in the reference month to the same month a year earlier.The CPI is a key indicator to measure inflation and changes in purchasing trends. Generally speaking, a high reading is seen as bullish for the US Dollar (USD), while a low reading is seen as bearish.
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