The Hole Keeps Getting Deeper
And it's all about interest rate decisions…
We're still a month away from the UK Budget, and news stories are already moving currency markets.
Todays story was the OBR forecasting a 0.3% drop in UK productivity.
To put that into context, that's predicted to mean a further £20 billion required by the Government in the budget!
Whilst the official OBR forecast comes out at the same time as the budget on 26th November, this has caused the Pound to start the day in poor shape.
Expect more and more of this in the next month.
There are options to mitigate future risk including actual conversion, limit orders and forward contracts.
Your dedicated account manager at Regency FX is always on hand to talk through these options with you.
In the near term there's plenty of other news for the rest of the week to shake things up.
And it's all about interest rate decisions.
Canada, the US, Japan, and Europe are all making their decisions this week.
Canada and the US are expected to shave 25 points off each of their base rates whilst Japan and the Eurozone are expected to stick at their current rates.
Any decisions outside of those expectations could have far reaching repercussions to currency markets.
So what next, what should you do?
As ever we look forward to keeping you in the loop and so please look out for our next update.
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Current rates:
Wednesday 29th October 2025 at 10:00
£1.00 GBP = 1.1355 EUR
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