{"id":103326,"date":"2020-08-14T08:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/?p=103326"},"modified":"2020-08-14T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:56:19","slug":"103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list\/","title":{"rendered":"GBP\/EUR: Euro Currency Soft after France added to UK Coronavirus Quarantine List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/gbp-pound-sterling-live-exchange-rate\/\">British pound<\/a> (GBP) is up against the euro on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Virus numbers are at the highest in months in France and Germany<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/eur-euro-live-exchange-rate\/\">Euro<\/a> (EUR) soft before Eurozone 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter GDP data<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>France inflation flat in July<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Small bounce for Sterling before new Brexit talks next week<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GBP\/EUR was higher by 14 pips (+0.14%) at 1.1069 as of 9am GMT. The pound-euro exchange rate is completely flat on the week, up just -0.01%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/gbp-to-eur-exchange-rate-today\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-flat button-internalbutton\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#f92658;border-color:#c81f47;border-radius:5px\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color:#ffffff;padding:0px 22px;font-size:17px;line-height:34px;border-color:#fb688b;border-radius:5px;text-shadow:none\"> Check real time GBP to EUR exchange rate<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The currency pair has seen very little volatility over the past 48 hours, hugging a 20-pip trading range after having dropped steeply on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2>GBP: Trade talks anticipation lifts the pound<\/h2>\n<p>The British pound was drifting higher on Friday within the tight trading range that has been in place since the midweek slump following the UK GDP figures. Disappointing retail and industrial data from China overnight weighed slightly on risk sentiment, however there is some pressure on the euro given the rising virus cases in France and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Markets are starting to put this week\u2019s devastating -20.4% Q2 UK GDP decline and rise in UK joblessness behind them ahead of the start of new post-Brexit talks next week.<\/p>\n<h2>EUR: Virus cases jump in France and Germany<\/h2>\n<p>Investors continue to balance the prospects for Europe based on virus statistics and the improving chance of a vaccine becoming available this year.<\/p>\n<p>Virus cases have surged in Germany and France this week. Germany has recorded its highest number of cases in 3 months with 1,200 cases. France had 2,524 cases in 24 hours, the highest since it reopened from lockdown in May. The UK took the step of adding France to the list of countries where visitors will be required to quarantine for 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s already known from the flash reading that Europe\u2019s economy tipped into recession with two consecutive quarters of economic decline. The first reading was for -12.1% and today\u2019s revision is forecast to show a modest improvement to -12.0%. The small GDP revision doesn\u2019t take away from the huge problems Europe faces with such a weak economy.<\/p>\n<p>The euro mostly shrugged off France consumer price inflation (CPI) rising by 0.9% in July, unchanged from June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British pound (GBP) is up against the euro on Friday morning. Virus numbers are at the highest in months in France and Germany Euro (EUR) soft before Eurozone 2nd quarter GDP data France inflation flat in July Small bounce for Sterling before new Brexit talks next week GBP\/EUR was higher by 14 pips (+0.14%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163946598,"featured_media":100217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,1379],"tags":[1395,1394,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-103326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eur","8":"category-gbp","9":"tag-eur","10":"tag-gbp","11":"tag-gbp-eur"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GBP\/EUR: Euro Currency Soft after France added to UK Coronavirus Quarantine List - Currency Live<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ileana Ionescu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ileana Ionescu\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3d5cb0a6a22d357fc0b9ad562f35e75b\"},\"headline\":\"GBP\\\/EUR: Euro Currency Soft after France added to UK Coronavirus Quarantine List\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-14T07:55:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-14T07:56:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":399,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/05\\\/testing-vaccine-coronavirus.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"eur\",\"gbp\",\"gbp\\\/eur\"],\"articleSection\":[\"EUR\",\"GBP\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/103896-gbp-eur-euro-currency-soft-after-france-added-to-uk-coronavirus-quarantine-list\\\/\",\"name\":\"GBP\\\/EUR: Euro Currency Soft after France added to UK Coronavirus Quarantine List - 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