Pound Sterling vs US Dollar weakens after the BoE meeting, after Andrew Bailey’s comments on easing inflationary pressures.

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• Pound Sterling vs US Dollar weakens after the BoE meeting, after Andrew Bailey’s comments on easing inflationary pressures.
• Nevertheless, BoE Chairman adds that inflationary risks are still skewed to the upside and secondary effects are persistent.
• Another shooting star candlestick reversal pattern forms at the GBP/USD May highs but requires confirmation from a bearish close.

The Pound Sterling (GBP) experiences heightened volatility against the US Dollar (USD) following the Bank of England (BoE) monetary policy meeting on Thursday. It is trading in the 1.25s at the time of writing, showing a bearish short-term bias as investors digest the BoE event.

GBP/USD initially fell following the BoE’s announcement of its decision by a vote of 7-2 to raise interest rates by 0.25% bringing the Bank Rate to 4.50%.

Dovish opening remarks from the BoE’s Chairman Andrew Bailey further weighed on the pair, after he said the committee had good reason to believe headline inflation would fall considerably from April onwards. The Pound Sterling recovered later during Bailey’s press conference, however, when he emphasized secondary effects and how “risks to inflation continue to be skewed to the upside as secondary effects persist”.

The overall feel to the event was upbeat as the BoE revised up its projections for economic growth over the next two years from negative to positive.

From a technical perspective, GBP/USD remains in a long-term uptrend, advantaging long over short holders.

GBP/USD broadly-speaking keeps extending its established uptrend making progressively higher highs and higher lows, and this is likely to continue bar a break below the 1.2435 May lows, still favoring Pound Sterling longs over shorts, for now.

GBP/USD: Daily Chart

On Wednesday, the market formed a shooting star Japanese candlestick reversal pattern on GBP/USD, indicating the possibility of a short-term bearish reversal. The pattern, however, still awaits confirmation from a bearish close on Thursday. Given the sell-off after the BoE meeting this now looks highly likely. A bearish close would open the way for more short-term downside, probably to support at the base of the rising channel/wedge, located at around 1.2475.

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is declining after showing mild bearish divergence between price at the May peaks and RSI. This is indicative of underlying weakness, and further suggests more short-term downside.

Yet, given the overall trend is bullish, the exchange rate will probably recover and continue rallying. The May 2022 highs at 1.2665 provide the first resistance level, but once breached they open the way to the 100-week Simple Moving Average (SMA) situated at 1.2713, and finally at the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement of the 2021-22 bear market, at 1.2758. All provide potential upside targets for the pair. Each level will need to be decisively breached to open the door to the next.

Decisive bearish breaks are characterized by long daily candles that break through key resistance levels in question and close near their highs or lows of the day (depending on whether the break is bullish or bearish). Alternatively, three consecutive candles that break through the level can also be decisive. Such insignia provide confirmation that the break is not a ‘false break’ or bull/bear trap.

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