The Pound Tumbles in delayed reaction

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The Pound Tumbles in Delayed Reaction, as May gets Green Light from Parliament to Trigger Article 50.  This has, so far, been a mixed week of good and bad news for Theresa May. The good news was that on Monday of this week she received the green light from parliament to trigger Article 50. The bad news was, however, very bad news indeed, after Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon signalled the start of a legal process for an independence referendum.

This quickly resulted in the pound tumbling against all of its Group-of-10 peer currencies, touching an eight-week low versus the dollar, after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May was given the go-ahead to trigger Brexit.

Sterling had a delayed reaction to the news, which came out late Monday in London and gives May the chance to formally kick off negotiations with the European Union. Investors had been reluctant to sell the pound during Tokyo trading hours as markets were quiet before the Federal Reserve policy decision on Wednesday, according to Masashi Murata, a currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman.

The selloff comes a day after Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon signalled the start of a legal process for an independence referendum.

The pound has been one of major victims of the U.K.’s vote to exit the EU, and has fallen about 19 percent versus the dollar since the June referendum. Sterling has also shown a propensity to drop after new developments in the Brexit process, even if, as is the case for Monday’s votes, they have been widely expected.

 “Now that Parliament have cleared the way for Theresa May to trigger Article 50, there is a real realization in the market that the U.K. government is right on the edge of potentially difficult negotiations with the EU regarding Brexit,” said Jane Foley, a senior currency strategist at Rabobank International in London. “This could unleash a whole new catalogue of uncertainty about the U.K.’s future relationship with the EU many of which could be detrimental to investor confidence.”

Sterling fell as much as 0.9 percent to $1.2110 on Tuesday, its lowest since Jan. 17, the day May outlined her Brexit plans which would prioritize regaining control of laws and immigration at the cost of losing access to the single market.

(Source: Bloomberg Markets: 13/03/2017)

Victor Romain, for invest-rating, in London

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