{"id":91595,"date":"2016-06-20T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=91595"},"modified":"2016-06-20T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T10:57:00","slug":"turnaround-in-brexit-polls-lifts-the-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2016\/06\/turnaround-in-brexit-polls-lifts-the-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnaround in Brexit polls lifts the pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-4240632928\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">June 20, 2016<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p>Article by <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sterling started the new trading week with new strength and is on track for its best session since October 2009 after surging on the latest opinion polls on Britain\u2019s EU referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Since the killing of the pro-remain MP Jo Cox last week, there has been a turnaround in the polls over the weekend which showed a slight swing back in favour to vote to remain in the EU in the June 23 referendum.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the pound was battered on Brexit concerns as the campaign for the UK to vote in favour of leaving the EU was leading.<\/p>\n<p>The first opinion polls on the EU referendum have suggested the \u201cremain\u201d campaign had slowly gained momentum, helping lift the pound up 1.6 per cent at $1.4590, making it the best performing major global currency against the US dollar.<\/p>\n<p>All other major currencies bar the yen were higher against the greenback on Monday morning in Asia.<\/p><div id=\"inves-275392799\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>David Cameron, UK prime minister, invoked the memory of Cox to press the case for Britain staying in the EU, amid signs of tensions in the Leave camp as the referendum campaign enters its final week.<\/p>\n<p>Cox\u2019s death led to the suspension of the referendum campaign, putting the brakes on the \u201cleave\u201d campaign\u2019s surge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54242 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Forex-Time-Logo.png\" alt=\"Forex-Time-Logo\" width=\"262\" height=\"90\" \/><strong>Article by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/contributors\/contributor-profile-forextime\/\">ForexTime<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ForexTime Ltd (FXTM)<\/strong> is an award winning international online forex broker regulated by CySEC 185\/12 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forextime.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.forextime.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by ForexTime Sterling started the new trading week with new strength and is on track for its best session since October 2009 after surging on the latest opinion polls on Britain\u2019s EU referendum. Since the killing of the pro-remain MP Jo Cox last week, there has been a turnaround in the polls over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91614,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91595\/revisions\/91614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}