{"id":882709,"date":"2026-01-03T02:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-dips-below-1-3450-following-final-uk-manufacturing-pmi-data\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:11:50","slug":"pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-dips-below-1-3450-following-final-uk-manufacturing-pmi-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-dips-below-1-3450-following-final-uk-manufacturing-pmi-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound Sterling Price News and Forecast: Dips below 1.3450 following final UK manufacturing PMI data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-content-section\">\n<p>The Pound has been rejected at 1.3475 on the early London trading session on Friday, and retreated to session lows at the 1.3450 area at the time of writing. The pair has turned negative on the daily chart following the downward revision of the UK\u2019s December $&#038;P Global\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/economic-calendar\" data-fxs-autoanchor>Manufacturing PMI<\/a>, but remains within the weekly range, above 1.3400. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/gbp-usd-dips-below-13450-following-final-uk-manufacturing-pmi-data-202601021053\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>GBP\/USD Price Forecast: Holds above nine-day EMA near 1.3450<\/h2>\n<p>GBP\/USD edges higher on the first day of the year, trading around 1.3470 during the Asian hours on Friday. The technical analysis of the daily chart indicates a weakening of a bullish bias as the pair remains slightly below the lower boundary of the ascending channel pattern. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/gbp-usd-price-forecast-holds-above-nine-day-ema-near-13450-202601020606\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1536\" height=\"564\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class   src=\"http:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.fxsstatic.com%2Fmiscelaneous%2Fimage-1767367954487-1767367954487.png&#038;w=1536&#038;q=95\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>GBP\/USD gathers strength above 1.3450 on Fed rate cut bets, BoE&#8217;s gradual policy path<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/currencies\/gbpusd\" data-fxs-autoanchor>The GBP\/USD pair<\/a>\u00a0gathers strength to around 1.3480 during the early Asian session on Friday. Expectations of the US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/macroeconomics\/central-banks\/fed\" data-fxs-autoanchor>Federal Reserve<\/a>\u00a0(Fed) rate cuts this year weigh on the US Dollar (USD) against the Pound Sterling (GBP). Philadelphia Fed President Anna Paulson is set to speak later on the weekend. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/gbp-usd-gathers-strength-above-13450-on-fed-rate-cut-bets-boes-gradual-policy-path-202601020129\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-dips-below-13450-following-final-uk-manufacturing-pmi-data-202601021533\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Blythe Motsinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pound has been rejected at 1.3475 on the early London trading session on Friday, and retreated to session lows at the 1.3450 area at the time of writing. The pair has turned negative on the daily chart following the downward revision of the UK\u2019s December $&amp;P Global\u00a0Manufacturing PMI, but remains within the weekly range<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2794,32662],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-882709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pound","8":"category-sterling"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882709","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=882709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}