While sterling has rallied sharply over the past couple of days, its performance had previously lagged that of other risky currencies recently. That appears to partly reflect renewed concerns about the risk of an abrupt change to the UK’s trading relationship with the EU at the end of 2020 – a concern that we think will continue to weigh on the pound this year.
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