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GBP/USD: Stronger Sterling ahead - UBS

FXStreet (Córdoba) - The UBS analyst team has changed the GBP/USD forecast to 1.7000 in 3 months given economic and policy divergence between the BoE and the Fed.

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“The ECB is likely to further ease monetary policy in June and the USD still suffers from the weak Q1 GDP. However, the UK economy gives the Bank of England a hard time to push out market expectation of a first rate hike”.

“We change the GBP/USD forecast to 1.70, 1.66 and 1.64 in three, six and twelve months (previously 1.65, 1.65 and 1.62), as well as the EUR/GBP forecast to 0.79, 0.77 and 0.76 (0.81, 0.78 and 0.77) and GBP/CHF to 1.56, 1.60 and 1.63 (1.51, 1.58 and 1.60) over the same horizon”.