{"id":22801,"date":"2011-08-01T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2011-08-01T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:03:11","slug":"british-manufacturing-dip-drags-on-pound-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/08\/01\/british-manufacturing-dip-drags-on-pound-sterling\/","title":{"rendered":"British Manufacturing Dip Drags on Pound Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A minor downtick in Britain\u2019s manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) helped drag the British pound (GBP) slightly lower in today\u2019s European trading sessions. Though the UK\u2019s housing sector was seen rising last week, a dip in manufacturing appears to be tearing into recent upswings in optimism.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15177\"><\/span>Mixed growth in several sectors has had traders on edge these past few weeks. Such reports out of the vital manufacturing sector give cause for concern as Britain struggles with regional debt woes and its own structural deficits. Risk appetite may be switched on this week, however, considering the recent passage of a debt ceiling increase in the United States. Should sentiment shift in favor of regional currencies, the GBP may find itself gaining throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A minor downtick in Britain\u2019s manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) helped drag the British pound (GBP) slightly lower in today\u2019s European trading sessions. Though the UK\u2019s housing sector was seen rising last week, a dip in manufacturing&#8230;<\/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-22801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801","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=22801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}