{"id":1261,"date":"2019-02-26T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2019-02-26T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:58:11","slug":"pound-gains-as-may-considers-delay-to-brexit-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/pound-gains-as-may-considers-delay-to-brexit-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound Gains as May Considers Delay to Brexit Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0<\/span>GBP\/USD<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>pair jumped to a four-week high on Tuesday in Asia following a Bloomberg report that said British Prime Minister Theresa May was considering delaying a deadline on Brexit.<\/p>\n

Citing people familiar with the situation, the report said May is expected to allow her cabinet to discuss extending the deadline beyond March 29 at meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The pound strengthened following the news as it gives more time to May to prepare a strategy to stop the U.K. leaving the European Union with no deal next month.<\/p>\n

The GBP\/USD pair last traded at 1.3138 by 11:27 PM ET (04:27 GMT), up 0.3%. The pair rose to a four-week peak of $1.3153 earlier in the day, its four-week peak.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, reports that U.S. President Donald Trump raised the prospect to sign a trade deal with China failed to lift the yuan today as the\u00a0<\/span>USD\/CNY<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>pair gained 0.2% to 6.6923.<\/p>\n

Trump said the two sides \u201care going to have a signing summit\u201d and that they are \u201cgetting very very close,\u201d although he cautioned it is possible that the deal “might not happen at all.”<\/p>\n

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) set the yuan reference rate at 6.6952 vs the previous day’s fix of 6.7131.<\/p>\n

The yuan received some support on Monday following Trump\u2019s decision to extend a tariff deadline of Chinese goods.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>U.S. dollar index<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>that tracks the greenback against a basket of other currencies slipped 0.1% to 96.225.<\/p>\n

Former Federal Reserve Janet Yellen made headlines as she said Trump does not understand the central bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cI doubt that he would even be able to say that the Fed\u2019s goals are maximum employment and price stability, which is the goals that Congress have assigned to the Fed,\u201d she said in an interview with American Public Media\u2019s \u201cMarketplace\u201d program, published on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s made comments about the Fed having an exchange rate objective in order to support his trade plans, or possibly targeting the U.S. balance of trade,\u201d she said. \u201cComments like that show a lack of understanding of the impact of the Fed on the economy, and appropriate policy goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, traders will focus on a set of data due in the second half of the week for more hints on the health of the global economy, including manufacturing activity figures from China and the U.S. and revised U.S. fourth-quarter gross domestic product figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0GBP\/USD\u00a0pair jumped to a four-week high on Tuesday in Asia following a Bloomberg report that said British Prime Minister Theresa May was considering delaying a deadline on Brexit. Citing people familiar with the situation, the report said May is expected to allow her cabinet to discuss extending the deadline beyond Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage","category-latest-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}