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11-03-2004, 10:00 PM
The housing industry report suppress Sterling support and will cancel the company information. Expects that the move is going to be a cut will must be revised, although the Bank of England is very likely to keep rates unchanged now. Markets will wait to get signs of their lender's intentions week for the inflation report. Sterling provides little immediate value over the 1.85 degree against the US money, but there'll be a jump over 1.85 when there's a surprise rate increase.

Sterling strengthened ardently from the US currency because the US currency faltered on Wednesday and it pushed to close 1.85. Sterling was not able to fortify through the 0.69 degree from the Euro, weakening back to 0.6930. Sterling gained some assistance the central bank was selling dollars and buying Sterling, but home data weakened on Thursday in Europe.

Now, the Bank of England will decide on interest rates. The financial statistics over the previous 48 hours had normally been stronger than anticipated, but the routine has been broken up with the Halifax housing statistics for October since there was a 1.1% yearly cost reduction. Given the evidence that is combined, a powerful case is for the lender to leave interest rates unchanged at the term. Rates must be left in 4.75percent now, even though there'll be a sharp temporary Sterling increase if prices have been raised. The inflation report following week will be very important to evaluate rate of interest and Sterling prospects that are medium-term.

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