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Pound on track for biggest fall in 18 months after Bank of England governor hints at ‘more activist’ rate cuts – business live
Andrew Bailey tells the Guardian the Bank could become a “bit more aggressive” in cutting interest rates if news on inflation continued to be good
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Today’s fall means the pound has now lost all its gains against the dollar over the last two weeks, since the US Federal Reserve slashed its lending rate by half of a percent.
The Fed’s ‘jumbo’ rate cut weakened the dollar against the pound (and other currencies).
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