{"id":10307,"date":"2010-06-16T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=10307"},"modified":"2010-06-16T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:47:01","slug":"a-downturn-seen-on-the-pound-june-17-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/06\/16\/a-downturn-seen-on-the-pound-june-17-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"A Downturn Seen on the Pound &#8211; June 17, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laidtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/061610gbpusd.png\" alt=\"GBPUSD june 17, cable june 17, sterling pound, british pound, pound, USD, US dollar\" width=\"511\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cable or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=gbpusd\">GBPUSD<\/a> pair has been staging a nice rebound for the past couple of weeks after  it touched a low of 1.4227 last May 20. From my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laidtrades.com\/2010\/05\/28\/the-british-pounds-rally-may-28-2010\/\">previous  post<\/a> about the cable last May 28, I mentioned that if and when it  moves past 1.4600, it could reach 1.4800. At present, the pair is  already trading around that area. And as I\u2019ve said, it could experience  some selling pressure at this level. With the stochastics now in the  overbought territory, the pair could indeed turn around and move lower  in the next coming days. Once it does, it could aim for its 2010 low  again. On the other hand, the pound bulls could still meet a lot of  resistances at the three Fibonacci retracement levels just above 1.4800,  1.4900, and 1.5050, and even at the downtrend line even if it is able  to close above 1.4800. So until it breaks the downtrend line and  reverses, my sentiment towards the sterling pound is still bearish. But  that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n<p>On the fundamental side, the pound\u2019s movement for today will take cue  from the result of the UK\u2019s retail sales performance in May. The UK\u2019s  headline retail sales are seen to have grown by a mere 0.1% after rising  by 0.3% in April. A worse than projected number would more likely push  the GBP lower. For the first time in the last three months, the UK\u2019s  inflation cooled off in May. This could suggest that the demand for  goods and services for the same period could have slowed as well. Such  could likewise translate to a weak retail sales figure for the month.<\/p>\n<p>More on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laidtrades.com\/\">LaidTrades.com<\/a><\/span> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cable or the GBPUSD pair has been staging a nice rebound for the past couple of weeks after it touched a low of 1.4227 last May 20. From my previous post about the cable last May 28, I mentioned that if and when it moves past 1.4600, it could reach 1.4800. At present, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/06\/16\/a-downturn-seen-on-the-pound-june-17-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Downturn Seen on the Pound &#8211; June 17, 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}