{"id":104272,"date":"2020-09-08T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/?p=104272"},"modified":"2020-09-08T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:09:49","slug":"104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/","title":{"rendered":"GBP\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Hard Brexit fears are dragging on the <a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/gbp-pound-sterling-live-exchange-rate\/\">Pound<\/a> (GBP)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The 8<sup>th<\/sup> round of Brexit talks are due to start in London, expectations of a breakthrough are low<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Australian payrolls -0.4% in August as covid resurgence hampers recovery<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Business confidence is fragile slipping on the NAB index to -6<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After tanking lower in the previous session, the <a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/gbp-to-aud-exchange-rate-today\/\">Pound Australian Dollar<\/a> (GBP\/AUD) exchange rate is trending southwards for a fourth consecutive session. The pairs settled on Monday -0.6% lower at 1.8085. At 08:30 UTC, GBP\/AUD trades -0.2% at 1.8023 as it targets the key level of 1.80.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/gbp-to-aud-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 AUD exchange rate<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Pound is adding to yesterday\u2019s Brexit inspired losses as the 8<sup>th<\/sup> round of Brexit trade talks are due to begin in London. Hopes of progress are low following months of deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting inject a sense of urgency into the talks. The PM has threatened that if no progress is made this week no deal preparations will be ramped up. His comments came following yesterday\u2019s new deadline \u2013 a trade deal must be reached by 15<sup>th<\/sup> October and as the government plans to under-cut parts of the previously agreed Brexit divorce treaty.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson seems to be piling the pressure on and could be pushing the EU to its limits. The EU has warned the UK not to tamper with the Brexit deal. Tension between to the two sides are elevated before these talks have even started.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Dollar is trading mixed versus its major peers as data from the Australian Statistics Bureau highlighted a worrying trend in the labour market. Data revealed that the number of Australian payrolls fell by 0.4% across August. The state of Victoria continues to underperform the rest of Australia with payrolls down 2%, whilst the rest of Australia saw a 0.1% increase as Victoria battled a second wave of covid infections and Melbourne was put into lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Separately data also revealed that business conditions in August fell sharply as Victoria relapsed into a coronavirus lockdown. Confidence remains fragile with the National Australia Bank business conditions slipping to -6 points in July, down from 0 the previous month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard Brexit fears are dragging on the Pound (GBP) The 8th round of Brexit talks are due to start in London, expectations of a breakthrough are low Australian payrolls -0.4% in August as covid resurgence hampers recovery Business confidence is fragile slipping on the NAB index to -6 After tanking lower in the previous session, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163946597,"featured_media":3705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547,1379],"tags":[1540,2687,1541,1386,1607,1394,1498,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-104272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aud","8":"category-gbp","9":"tag-aud","10":"tag-aud-gbp","11":"tag-australian-dollar","12":"tag-brexit","13":"tag-business-confidence","14":"tag-gbp","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-pound"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GBP\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data - 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\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Fiona Cincotta\" \/>\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\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Fiona Cincotta\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec\"},\"headline\":\"GBP\\\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-08T09:26:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-08T13:09:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":389,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"aud\",\"aud\\\/gbp\",\"australian dollar\",\"Brexit\",\"business confidence\",\"gbp\",\"jobs\",\"pound\"],\"articleSection\":[\"AUD\",\"GBP\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/\",\"name\":\"GBP\\\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data - Currency Live\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-08T09:26:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-08T13:09:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":405},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"GBP\\\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Currency Live\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec\",\"name\":\"Fiona Cincotta\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/79afd1dde0d7ad291707268bbcdb9fdb41b2dd29f8088c8cfe9c67cd2a1de0e4?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/79afd1dde0d7ad291707268bbcdb9fdb41b2dd29f8088c8cfe9c67cd2a1de0e4?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/79afd1dde0d7ad291707268bbcdb9fdb41b2dd29f8088c8cfe9c67cd2a1de0e4?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Fiona Cincotta\"},\"description\":\"Editor - Senior Financial Market Analyst Through over a decade\u2019s experience analysing and reporting on global currency markets, Fiona has a gained a deep understanding of the fundamental drivers of currencies. She is regularly quoted by international news organisations including Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg. Fiona is a familiar face after years of appearances on BBC, Sky News and Fox Business News.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/fiona-cincotta-bb4a4845\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/fiona-cincotta\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"GBP\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data - Currency Live","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Fiona Cincotta","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/"},"author":{"name":"Fiona Cincotta","@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec"},"headline":"GBP\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data","datePublished":"2020-09-08T09:26:08+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-08T13:09:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/"},"wordCount":389,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg","keywords":["aud","aud\/gbp","australian dollar","Brexit","business confidence","gbp","jobs","pound"],"articleSection":["AUD","GBP"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2020","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/","url":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/","name":"GBP\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data - Currency Live","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg","datePublished":"2020-09-08T09:26:08+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-08T13:09:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg","width":800,"height":405},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104200-gbp-aud-brexit-fears-overshadow-disappointing-australian-jobs-data\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"GBP\/AUD: Brexit Fears Overshadow Disappointing Australian Jobs Data"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/","name":"Currency Live","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec","name":"Fiona Cincotta","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79afd1dde0d7ad291707268bbcdb9fdb41b2dd29f8088c8cfe9c67cd2a1de0e4?s=96&d=blank&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79afd1dde0d7ad291707268bbcdb9fdb41b2dd29f8088c8cfe9c67cd2a1de0e4?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79afd1dde0d7ad291707268bbcdb9fdb41b2dd29f8088c8cfe9c67cd2a1de0e4?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Fiona Cincotta"},"description":"Editor - Senior Financial Market Analyst Through over a decade\u2019s experience analysing and reporting on global currency markets, Fiona has a gained a deep understanding of the fundamental drivers of currencies. She is regularly quoted by international news organisations including Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg. Fiona is a familiar face after years of appearances on BBC, Sky News and Fox Business News.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/fiona-cincotta-bb4a4845\/"],"url":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/author\/fiona-cincotta\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/100096-gbp-aud-uk-political-changes.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163946597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104307,"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104272\/revisions\/104307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}