Rates and currencies
Pound in dollars
How many dollars one pound buys.
1.3453down −0.14%today
Trading now
Prices from the exchanges, some 15 minutes late. Past moves say nothing about future ones.
Key numbers
- Previous close
- 1.3472
- Today’s range
- 1.3446 – 1.3498
- 52-week range
- 1.3022 – 1.3825
- 1 week
- up +0.94%
- 1 month
- up +1.40%
- 3 months
- down −0.01%
- This year
- down −0.10%
- 1 year
- up +3.31%
Why it is moving
Pushes up. Bank of England raised its base rate to 4%.
Central banks lean toward tighter policy
The Bank of England raised its base rate from 3.75% to 4% and warned another rise may follow. Other central banks also moved toward tighter policy.
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Which way it leans, and how far it could go
Bank of England raised its base rate to 4%. Trend: above its 50-day average and up 1.4% in a month.
A typical day: ±0.3% (±0.0036)
We keep score: every day each lean is checked a day later, and how often they were right will show here once 20 have been checked.
| Over the | Likely range | Wider range |
|---|---|---|
| Next hour | 1.3445 – 1.3461 ±0.1% | 1.3438 – 1.3468 |
| Next day | 1.3417 – 1.3489 ±0.3% | 1.3382 – 1.3525 |
| Next week | 1.3372 – 1.3535 ±0.6% | 1.3294 – 1.3614 |
| Next month | 1.3287 – 1.3621 ±1.2% | 1.3130 – 1.3784 |
Where it should end the period two times in three (likely) and nineteen times in twenty (wider), if the coming days swing as much as the recent ones: a volatility forecast from its past year, weighted to the last weeks. Our lean puts together how today’s news bears on it and its trend; it can be wrong, and markets can move more. Not investment advice.
Our stories
Prices come from the exchanges and can be 15 minutes late; crypto trades around the clock. Today’s range is read every 15 minutes. Not investment advice.