{"id":104918,"date":"2020-09-18T11:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T10:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/?p=104918"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T12:33:47","slug":"104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"GBP\/AUD: Sentiment Drives Aussie Dollar Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pound Australian Dollar (GBP\/AUD) exchange rate is trading +0.1% higher at 1.7750. The pair is set to book gains of 1% across the week, after falling 3.7% last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104355-gbp-aud-aussie-dollar-slips-in-risk-off-trading\/\">UK retail sales +0.8% MoM in August.<\/a> This was the fourth straight month of gains; however, those gains are slowing. Retail sales rose 3.6% in July.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Dollar is edging lower amid a risk off mood in the market. Rising covid cases, particularly in Europe, unnerving investors. There is no high impacting data due until next Wednesday, leaving sentiment to drive direction in the Australian Dollar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"\" style=\"border-color:#000061;border-radius:3px;max-width:none\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#071894;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">GBP Index Today - last 180 days<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/407b9c3fee8e107ace29876e3d969795.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/407b9c3fee8e107ace29876e3d969795.png 800w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/407b9c3fee8e107ace29876e3d969795-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/407b9c3fee8e107ace29876e3d969795-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/407b9c3fee8e107ace29876e3d969795-696x303.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 75%; line-height: 1.5;\"><div class=\"su-expand su-expand-collapsed su-expand-link-style-default no-margin\" data-height=\"0\"><div class=\"su-expand-content su-u-trim\" style=\"color:#333333;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden\">Currency Index charts show the <strong>strength of a single currency<\/strong> based on a basket of foreign currencies. This is done using a weighted mean (an average) of the 5 largest routes from that source currency and their daily FX rates. You can explore <a style=\"color:#0088FF\" href=\"\/exchange-rate\/\">live exchange rates here<\/a>.<\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-more\" style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#0088FF;border-color:#0088FF\"><span style=\"border-color:#0088FF\">What does this show? <\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-expand-link su-expand-link-less\" style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" style=\"color:#0088FF;border-color:#0088FF\"><span style=\"border-color:#0088FF\">Show less<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pound Australian Dollar (GBP\/AUD) exchange rate is trading +0.1% higher at 1.7750. The pair is set to book gains of 1% across the week, after falling 3.7% last week. UK retail sales +0.8% MoM in August. This was the fourth straight month of gains; however, those gains are slowing. Retail sales rose 3.6% in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163946597,"featured_media":3665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547,1379],"tags":[1540,1541,1394,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-104918","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-australian-dollar","11":"tag-gbp","12":"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: Sentiment Drives Aussie Dollar Lower - 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\/104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower\/\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Fiona Cincotta\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec\"},\"headline\":\"GBP\\\/AUD: Sentiment Drives Aussie Dollar Lower\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-18T10:40:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-18T12:33:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":157,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/100076-gbp-aud-hold-steady-china-pmi.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"aud\",\"australian dollar\",\"gbp\",\"pound\"],\"articleSection\":[\"AUD\",\"GBP\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104356-gbp-aud-sentiment-drives-aussie-dollar-lower\\\/\",\"name\":\"GBP\\\/AUD: Sentiment Drives Aussie Dollar Lower - 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