Pound sinks back below $1.30 to one-month low
by Tara Cunningham, Business Reporter
Telegraph.co.uk
[…] Pound flounders below $1.30 at one-month low
The pound tanked to a one-month low today as traders said comments made by the Bank of England’s IanMcCafferty hurt the currency. BoE policymaker McCafferty wrote in the Times that more quantitative easing was likely to be required and the central bank rate could be cut further if the post-Brexit economic decline in the UK worsens. It feel by as much as 0.64pc to $1.2956 against the dollar.
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