{"id":1102,"date":"2021-05-12T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/news\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2021-05-12T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:24:39","slug":"gbp-usd-comment-sterling-slips-after-us-cpi-surprise-as-mkt-puzzles-over-fed-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/2021\/05\/12\/gbp-usd-comment-sterling-slips-after-us-cpi-surprise-as-mkt-puzzles-over-fed-view\/","title":{"rendered":"GBP \/ USD – COMMENT-Sterling Slips After US CPI Surprise As Mkt Puzzles Over Fed View"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GBP \/ USD retreated on Wednesday after unexpectedly strong US CPI, but divergence between the Fed and markets over the direction the data’s  implications clouded sterling’s outlook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fed vice chair Richard Clarida followed the data with dovish comments [NSON2LF0OL]. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising inflation came as little surprise after earlier Fed warnings about pandemic base effects, though the scale of the increase may have caught some off guard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Fed officials will continue to downplay near-term inflation increases as transitory, the market priced in a hike more aggressively.  with US.  Eurodollar futures slipping 6-10 bps from December 2022 to june 2025. projecting a full 25bps rise by December 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A non-transitory inflation increase could boost the dollar – and cap cable gains if it triggers a Fed response, but Wednesday’s upbeat UK Q1\u00a0 GDP and output data supports further sterling gains.\u00a0 as pandemic and Brexit-related weakness ebb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: https:\/\/plus.efxdata.com\/news\/insights<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GBP \/ USD retreated on Wednesday after unexpectedly strong US CPI, but divergence between the Fed and markets over the direction the data’s  implications clouded sterling’s outlook.  Fed vice chair Richard Clarida followed the data with dovish comments [NSON2LF0OL].  Rising inflation came as little surprise after earlier Fed warnings about pandemic base effects, though the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}