Currencies

Pound’s Glory Days Are Over as Bets on Ever-Higher Rates Fade

  • Sterling is second-best performing currency in G-10 this year
  • NatWest and BNP now see BOE delivering just one more rate hike

A discount pound store in Croydon. 

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Follow us at @BloombergUK and on Facebook, and wrap up your day with The Readout newsletter.

The pound’s unexpected rally this year may have finally run out of steam as the Bank of England moves closer to wrapping up its tightening cycle.