{"id":101767,"date":"2024-05-29T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=101767"},"modified":"2024-05-30T05:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:31:03","slug":"sterling-retreats-to-fresh-weekly-lows-as-bears-eye-1-2700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/sterling-retreats-to-fresh-weekly-lows-as-bears-eye-1-2700\/05\/29\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling retreats to fresh weekly lows as bears eye 1.2700"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The GBP\/USD pair tumbles to new three-day low as \u2018evening star\u2019 chart pattern emerges. Buyers\u2019 momentum begins to fade as RSI aims toward the 50-midline. If the pair drops below 1.2700, look for further losses; otherwise, bulls can challenge 1.2800.<br><br>The British Pound fell to a new weekly low against the Greenback on Wednesday as US Treasury bond yields continued to climb. Federal Reserve officials remained cautious and influenced traders&#8217; expectations of just 25 basis points of rate cuts seen toward the end of 2024. The GBP\/USD trades at 1.2719, down 0.33%.<br><br>The GBP\/USD formed a three-candle chart formation called an \u2018evening star,\u2019 hinting that prices could tumble further. Momentum remains bullish, as depicted by the Relative Strength Index (RSI), but aims toward the 50-midline, which means that buyers are losing momentum.<br><br><br>On further weakness, if GBP\/USD drops below 1.2700, the pair could test the May 3 daily high turned support at 1.2634. Once cleared, the next support would be the 50-day moving average (DMA) at 1.2580, followed by the 200-DMA at 1.2539.<br><br>On the other hand, if buyers reclaim the current week&#8217;s high of 1.2777, further gains are seen above 1.2800, like the year-to-date (YTD) high of 1.2893.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GBP\/USD pair tumbles to new three-day low as \u2018evening star\u2019 chart pattern emerges. Buyers\u2019 momentum begins to fade as RSI aims toward the 50-midline. If the pair drops below 1.2700, look for further losses; otherwise, bulls can challenge 1.2800.The British Pound fell to a new weekly low against the Greenback on Wednesday as US &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":54454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[7034,6984],"class_list":["post-101767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-forex-markets","category-market-updates","tag-gbp-usd","tag-treasury-yields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101801,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101767\/revisions\/101801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}