As there were no new Brexit announcements, the GBP/USD has remained steady during the last twenty for hours. The rate has traded in the range from 1.3160 up to 1.3250.
The sideways trading is expected to continue until the scheduled next Brexit vote occurs on Friday.
The British Pound appreciated against the US Dollar, following the UK Retail Sales data released on Thursday at 09:30 GMT. The GBP/USD exchange currency rate gained 11 pips or 0.09% during a minute, right after the release. The British Pound continued trading at the 1.3050 area against the US Dollar.
The Office for National Statistics released UK Retail Sales data that came out better than expected of 0.4%, compare to forecasted negative 0.4%.
Rhian Murphy, the ONS's head of retail sales, said: "Retail sales continued to bounce back in the three months to February with strong increases in fuel sales and online shopping."
UK data will be out on Friday
This is the last week of March and due to that reason it is expected to be quiet for macroeconomic fundamental data releases. However, there are a couple of notable events worth watching.On Thursday, the US Final GDP data will be published at 12:30 GMT. The event might cause moves on various currency exchange rates from ten to twenty base points.
On Friday, there will be two releases. First will be the UK Current Account publication at 09:30 GMT. This event is expected to cause a small reaction because still most attention of fundamental traders is on the Brexit events not macroeconomic data.
That is because no historical data can be used for forecasting a currency strength in a situation where the base of the underlying economy is about to change so drastically.
Afterwards, on the same day, the top release of the week will occur. At 12:30 GMT the Canadian GDP will be published. The Canadian events are the only ones, which have constantly created exchange rate adjustments of more than 40 pips.
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GBP/USD short term review
During Tuesday's trading session, the British Pound depreciated against the US Dollar to pass through 200-hour simple moving average. During Wednesday's midnight hours, the rate kept depreciating to trade at the 1.3188 mark.In regards to the near-term future, most likely, the British Pound will appreciate against the US Dollar to break the resistance levels of the 55-hour and the 200-hour simple moving averages. It is expected that the rate might end the day at the 1.3250 level.
On the other hand, the resistance level of the 200-hour simple moving average could retrace the rate to push it to pass the weekly PP at 1.3276.
Hourly Chart
On the daily chart the rate is located just above the weekly PP at 1.3180, and it has not technical resistance as high as 1.3350.
Meanwhile, due to the fact that all of the daily candle simple moving averages are below the rate, it is possible that the pair will trade sideways during the near future or even decline.
Daily chart
Meanwhile, the pending orders are mostly bearish. In the 100-pip range near the rate 61% of pending orders were set to sell.
These orders and positions are shorting the Brexit.