{"id":885934,"date":"2026-01-18T18:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecastgbp-usd-flat-near-1-3380-as-strong-data-boosts-the-us-dollar\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:16:37","slug":"pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecastgbp-usd-flat-near-1-3380-as-strong-data-boosts-the-us-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecastgbp-usd-flat-near-1-3380-as-strong-data-boosts-the-us-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound Sterling Price News and Forecast:GBP\/USD flat near 1.3380 as strong data boosts the US Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-content-section\">\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/currencies\/gbpusd\" data-fxs-autoanchor>British Pound<\/a>\u00a0(GBP) trades sideways against the US Dollar (USD) on Friday during the North American session, after reaching a daily high of 1.3413, but solid US data released this week capped Sterling\u2019s advance. GBP\/USD trades at 1.3380 and continues to distance from the 200-day SMA key technical level at 1.3405. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/gbp-usd-flat-near-13380-as-strong-us-data-boosts-the-usd-202601161603\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"742\" height=\"593\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class   src=\"http:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.fxsstatic.com%2Fmiscelaneous%2Fimage-1768581039638-1768581039638.png&#038;w=1536&#038;q=95\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>GBP\/USD returns above 1.3400 as the US Dollar rally loses steam<\/h2>\n<p>The Pound is trimming losses against the US Dollar on Friday, with price action returning above 1.3400 ahead of the US session opening, up from Thursday&#8217;s lows near 1.3360. The pair is on track to end the week practically unchanged after depreciating about 0.7% in the previous two weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/gbp-usd-returns-above-13400-as-the-us-dollar-rally-loses-steam-202601161205\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Pound Sterling remains fragile against US Dollar<\/h2>\n<p>The Pound Sterling (GBP) trades with caution near its four-week low around 1.3360 against the US Dollar (USD) during the European trading session on Friday.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/currencies\/gbpusd\" data-fxs-autoanchor>The GBP\/USD pair<\/a>\u00a0is under pressure as the US Dollar (USD) trades firmly amid expectations that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/macroeconomics\/central-banks\/fed\" data-fxs-autoanchor>Federal Reserve<\/a>\u00a0(Fed) will pause its monetary-easing campaign in the monetary policy meeting later this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/pound-sterling-remains-fragile-against-us-dollar-202601160738\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1536\" height=\"591\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class   src=\"http:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.fxsstatic.com%2Fmiscelaneous%2Fimage-1768581032190-1768581032190.png&#038;w=1536&#038;q=95\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-gbp-usd-flat-near-13380-as-strong-data-boosts-the-us-dollar-202601161631\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Georgianna Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0British Pound\u00a0(GBP) trades sideways against the US Dollar (USD) on Friday during the North American session, after reaching a daily high of 1.3413, but solid US data released this week capped Sterling\u2019s advance. GBP\/USD trades at 1.3380 and continues to distance from the 200-day SMA key technical level at 1.3405. Read More&#8230; GBP\/USD returns above<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2794,32662],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-885934","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\/885934","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=885934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}