22-07-2025
A Healthy U.S. Economy Is Bad News for the British Pound. How to Trade It Here.
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December British pound futures (B6Z25) present a selling opportunity on more price weakness.
See on the daily bar chart for December British pound futures that a price uptrend has been negated and prices are now starting to trend down after last week hitting a two-month low.
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Fundamentally, the U.S. economy is growing at a healthy pace, which is good for the greenback and also suggests the Federal Reserve won't be able to lower U.S. interest rates aggressively any time soon, if at all. Such is likely to keep the U.S. dollar in appreciation mode against other major currencies in the coming weeks.
A move in December British pound futures below chart support at the July low of 1.3387 would give the bears more power and it would also become a selling opportunity. The downside price objective would be 1.2900, or below. Technical resistance, for which to place a protective buy stop just above, is located at 1.3600.
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