The MPC decision of keeping the interest rate unchanged at its historical low at .5% and holding their bond buying plans as it is at 175b with no further adding at this meeting waiting for the reaction of the recent added 50b Stg of the meeting of July when the voting was split 6 to 3 to add 50B instead of 75B and one of those three was Marvin king himself and those previous opposing members have referred to the possibility of public confidence damage in the recovery which can flatter it suggesting that the inflation could be under the BOE target for a sustained period. So, The market was ready for new 25b Stg and this decision could underpinned the sterling to get over 1.66 breaking its previous resistance at 1.667 versus the greenback which was already under pressure across the broad as the current optimism which could contain the market sentiment pushing the US stocks up closing Dow for the first time this year above its recent resistance at 9600 rising the demand for the higher yielding currencies for taking risk after the recent better than expected economic data from US in the previous weeks which refer to a diminishing of the recession pressure and an increasing of the inflation outlook which can come accompanied with the recovery and this helped the gold to get above 1000$ this week.
- Published: 11 September 2009
- Written by Editor