{"id":104982,"date":"2020-09-21T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/?p=104982"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:31:07","slug":"104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"GBP\/EUR: Pound Advances Despite Virus Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/gbp-pound-sterling-live-exchange-rate\/\">Pound<\/a> (GBP) shows resilience with a glimmer of Brexit hope<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rising covid cases could limit any gains<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/eur-euro-sterling-live-exchange-rate\/\">Euro<\/a> (EUR) trades under pressure as economic recovery shows signs of slowing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eurozone consumer confidence in focus on Tuesday<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/exchange-rate\/eur-to-gbp-exchange-rate-today\/\">Pound Euro exchange rate<\/a> (GBP\/EUR) is pushing higher on Monday, extending gains from the previous week. The pair settled on Friday up 1% across the week at \u20ac1.0907, down around 100 points from the weekly high of \u20ac1.1011. At 05:15 UTC, GBP\/EUR trades +0.2% at \u20ac1.0922.<\/p>\n<p>The Pound managed to climb higher across the previous week on slight Brexit optimism and despite the Bank of England taking a step closer towards negative interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s controversial Internal Markets Bill passed through its first vote in Parliament last week, in a worrying move for the Pound. However, Boris Johnson climbed down, compromising with Conservative MP rebels to grant Parliament a greater oversight role in applying the law. Whilst Brussels has yet to respond, Pound traders feel that it is at least a move in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Other upbeat Brexit comments from EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that a deal is still possible has helped to underpin the Pound amid the Brexit drama.<\/p>\n<p>Brexit aside, coronavirus fears are returning as new daily infections continue to climb steeply and as talks of more localised lockdown, or even a two-week circuit breaker lockdown gain momentum. According to Chris Whitty, the government\u2019s chief medical officer the UK is at a critical point as the infection rate heads in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>The Euro was under pressure across last week as concerns over the rising number of coronavirus infections and the economic recovery in the bloc pick up. Recent data has shown that the economic rebound is starting to slow considerably. Economic activity remains well below pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation is a big headache for the European Central Bank as it remains depressed \u2013 0.2%, year on year in August.<\/p>\n<p>There is no high impacting Eurozone data due for release today. Investors will look head towards tomorrows Eurozone consumer confidence numbers and Wednesday PMI figures for September.<\/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\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105020\" src=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/0da3eb5ba0a43939cb8e3a7a4cc6f527.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/0da3eb5ba0a43939cb8e3a7a4cc6f527.png 800w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/0da3eb5ba0a43939cb8e3a7a4cc6f527-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/0da3eb5ba0a43939cb8e3a7a4cc6f527-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/currencylive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/0da3eb5ba0a43939cb8e3a7a4cc6f527-696x303.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>Pound (GBP) shows resilience with a glimmer of Brexit hope Rising covid cases could limit any gains Euro (EUR) trades under pressure as economic recovery shows signs of slowing Eurozone consumer confidence in focus on Tuesday The Pound Euro exchange rate (GBP\/EUR) is pushing higher on Monday, extending gains from the previous week. The pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163946597,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,1379],"tags":[1386,2139,1395,1393,1394,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-104982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eur","8":"category-gbp","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-coronavirus","11":"tag-eur","12":"tag-euro","13":"tag-gbp","14":"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\/EUR: Pound Advances Despite Virus Concerns - 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\/104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns\/\" \/>\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\\\/104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Fiona Cincotta\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8ef0fafb6c93f1204150bb907b42cfec\"},\"headline\":\"GBP\\\/EUR: Pound Advances Despite Virus Concerns\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-21T06:00:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-21T12:31:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":420,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/100640-gbp-eur-uk-gdp-and-eu-cpi-in-focus.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Brexit\",\"coronavirus\",\"eur\",\"euro\",\"gbp\",\"pound\"],\"articleSection\":[\"EUR\",\"GBP\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/currencylive.com\\\/news\\\/104369-gbp-eur-pound-advances-despite-virus-concerns\\\/\",\"name\":\"GBP\\\/EUR: Pound Advances Despite Virus Concerns - 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