{"id":848984,"date":"2025-05-17T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-gbp-usd-slips-below-1-33-as-us-consumer-sentiment-turns-negative\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:11:53","slug":"pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-gbp-usd-slips-below-1-33-as-us-consumer-sentiment-turns-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-gbp-usd-slips-below-1-33-as-us-consumer-sentiment-turns-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound Sterling Price News and Forecast: GBP\/USD slips below 1.33 as US consumer sentiment turns negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fxs_article_body\">\n<h2>GBP\/USD slips below 1.33 as US consumer sentiment turns negative, boosts USD<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><a data-fxs-autoanchor href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/currencies\/gbpusd\">The Pound<\/a>\u00a0Sterling retreats against the\u00a0<a data-fxs-autoanchor href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/currencies\/us-dollar-index\">US Dollar<\/a>\u00a0during the North American session, poised to end the week with minimal losses of over 0.24%. An absent economic docket in the UK on Friday left traders adrift to US data, which revealed that consumers are becoming pessimistic about the economy. The GBP\/USD trades at 1.3276, down 0.39%. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/gbp-usd-slips-below-133-as-us-consumer-sentiment-turns-negative-boosts-usd-202505161520\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial.fxsstatic.com\/miscelaneous\/image-1747408812293.png\"><\/p>\n<h2>Pound Sterling weakens against USD even as Michigan Sentiment data slides again<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Pound Sterling (GBP) turns upside down below 1.3330 against the US Dollar (USD) in Friday\u2019s North American session. The GBP\/USD pair gives up intraday gains and turns negative as the US Dollar (USD) claws back losses after the release of the preliminary US Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (CSI) and the Consumer Inflation Expectations data for May. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/pound-sterling-advances-against-us-dollar-on-soft-us-ppi-retail-sales-data-202505160748\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial.fxsstatic.com\/miscelaneous\/_GBP_USD_2025-05-16_12-47-00-1747381614575.png\"><\/p>\n<h2>GBP\/USD drifts higher above 1.3300 on softer US Dollar, upbeat UK GDP data<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The GBP\/USD pair edges higher to around 1.3310 during the Asian trading hours on Friday. The Greenback weakens against\u00a0<a data-fxs-autoanchor href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/currencies\/gbpusd\">the Pound<\/a>\u00a0Sterling (GBP) as downside surprises in the US economic data this week raise bets of more\u00a0<a data-fxs-autoanchor href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/macroeconomics\/central-banks\/fed\">Federal Reserve<\/a>\u00a0(Fed) rate cuts this year.\u00a0Traders will keep an eye on the preliminary University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, along with the US Building Permits, Housing Starts, which are due later on Friday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/gbp-usd-drifts-higher-above-13300-on-softer-us-dollar-upbeat-uk-gdp-data-202505160425\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Information on these pages contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. 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Errors and omissions excepted.<\/p>\n<p>The author and FXStreet are not registered investment advisors and nothing in this article is intended to be investment advice. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-gbp-usd-slips-below-133-as-us-consumer-sentiment-turns-negative-202505161544\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Erasmo Howe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GBP\/USD slips below 1.33 as US consumer sentiment turns negative, boosts USD The Pound\u00a0Sterling retreats against the\u00a0US Dollar\u00a0during the North American session, poised to end the week with minimal losses of over 0.24%. An absent economic docket in the UK on Friday left traders adrift to US data, which revealed that consumers are becoming pessimistic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2794,32662],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pound","category-sterling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}