{"id":4325,"date":"2018-11-13T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/pound-surges-on-hopes-of-brexit-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:04:57","slug":"pound-surges-on-hopes-of-brexit-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/pound-surges-on-hopes-of-brexit-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound surges on hopes of Brexit breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Pound coins\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/0F95\/production\/_100898930_pound.coins.stack.gc.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The pound has surged against the dollar and the euro amid growing optimism a Brexit deal is close to being agreed. <\/p>\n<p>Sterling leapt 1.4% to trade at $1.3036 against the dollar in afternoon trade, whilst against the euro it jumped to a seven-month high of \u20ac1.1542. <\/p>\n<p>The move came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-46188790\" class=\"story-body__link\">a significant breakthrough in talks<\/a> between UK and EU officials with the draft text of a Brexit deal agreed.<\/p>\n<p>But analysts warned the pound&#8217;s rally could be short lived. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the UK Cabinet and Parliament yet to agree to the plans, we are clearly not out of the woods yet,&#8221; said Capital Economics economist Ruth Gregory.<\/p>\n<p>She said she would not be surprised if a deal wasn&#8217;t secured until next year, with the pound likely to &#8220;pull back&#8221; again by the end of the year. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Pound surges against the dollar<\/h2>\n<p><!-- ONE DAY CHART --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46200297\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images The pound has surged against the dollar and the euro amid growing optimism a Brexit deal is close to being agreed. Sterling leapt 1.4% to trade at $1.3036 against the dollar in afternoon trade, whilst against the euro it jumped to a seven-month high of \u20ac1.1542. The move came after a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}