Pound Takes the Spotlight for Traders Gauging Vaccine Success

  • Currency in limbo as delta-stricken nation prepares to reopen
  • Aberdeen Asset is dip buyer, sees virus market impact fading
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Traders the world over are turning their eyes to the U.K and its currency to see how resistant the developed world will be to highly-transmissible virus variants.

As the world’s first major economy where the delta strain meets a widely-vaccinated population, Britain offers a roadmap for currency traders trying to navigate lingering Covid.