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Why has sterling taken a pounding?



Last week, the pound continued to depreciate, capping off the sterling trade-weighted index’s largest drop over a calendar month since February 2010. Sterling’s weakness against the euro seems partly to reflect the markets’ willingness to look beyond the single currency area’s immediate economic problems.

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