{"id":436,"date":"2010-12-29T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T09:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2010-12-29T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T09:51:15","slug":"smart-currency-exchange-sterling-loses-ground-against-eur-usd-29122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/smart-currency-exchange-sterling-loses-ground-against-eur-usd-29122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Currency Exchange: Sterling loses ground against EUR &#038; USD [29\/12\/2010]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are in a quiet period with little news and low trading volumes as most sensible people make the most of the festive period. Sterling\u00a0has lost a little bit of ground against the euro and the\u00a0US$. But it is against the commodity backed currencies that the biggest change has happened with sterling losing significant ground on Tuesday. This was a surprise given that\u00a0China\u00a0had raised their interest rates over the weekend which is usually a negative for commodity backed currencies as it signals an effort by the Chinese Government to \u201cmanage\u201d the rapid growth of their economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;\">EURO\/GBP &#8211; <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">1.1707<br \/><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;\">US$\/GBP<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"> \u2013 1.5372<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">CHF\/GBP<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 1.4639<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">CAN$\/GBP<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; 1.5337<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AUS$\/GBP<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 1.5136<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ZAR\/GBP<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 10.2840<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">JPY\/GBP<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u2013\u00a0129.247<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HKD\/GBP<\/span><\/strong> \u2013\u00a011.9649<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NZD\/GBP<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 2.0181<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SEK\/GBP<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 10.5290<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">US$\/EURO<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; 1.3121<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To request a up-to-the minute quotation, fill out our quote form: <a title=\"Get a quote from Smart Currency Exchange\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/apply\/smart-currency-exchange\">http:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/apply\/Smart Currency Exchange<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in a quiet period with little news and low trading volumes as most sensible people make the most of the festive period. Sterling\u00a0has lost a little bit of ground against the euro and the\u00a0US$. But it is against the commodity backed currencies that the biggest change has happened with sterling losing significant ground on Tuesday. This was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,21],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycurrencytransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}