The Pound to Euro rate hit 5-month highs last week
Timing is always important when sending money abroad.
To recap, the Pound to Euro rate hit 5-month highs only last week.
It’s been more of a case of Euro weakness than Pound strength.
The Euro has struggled against other currencies too.
A little fact for you: the Euro has closed down against the US Dollar for the last five weeks in a row!
Eurozone economic data has recently been pretty weak. It may be enough to make the ECB pause on interest rates sooner than expected.
On the other hand, Catherine Mann, the Bank of England’s chief hawk, reckons the UK has a far bigger inflation battle than either the EU or US.
Hint: she sees more interest rates hikes coming.
While that’s bad news for UK borrowers, it gives support to the Pound. Overall, the GBP/EUR rate looks to have an upward bias and is likely to retest the recent highs.
As for the US Dollar, it’s been quite volatile of late – all that huffing and puffing over the debt ceiling got investors jittery.
But away from politics, the fundamentals in the US economy are strong.
The closely watched non-farm payrolls came out on Friday higher than expected for the 14th month in a row! That’s given the US Dollar a lift and GBP/USD looks to have a downward bias for now.
So what next, what should you do?
Timing is always important when sending money abroad.
It’s always worth trying to achieve the best rate possible. Even the small daily moves matter.
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Wednesday 7th June 2023 at 15:00
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