GBP/USD, historically nicknamed "Cable" (from the 1850s transatlantic telegraph cable), is the exchange rate between the British Pound Sterling and the US Dollar. The UK economy is services-dominated (78% of GDP).
Convert British Pound to US Dollar using the live rate above — updates automatically as the price refreshes.
Live mid-market rate, not a remittance or transfer quote — banks and money changers add their own margin on top of this.
The ranges below aren't a prediction of where GBP/USD (Cable) will land — they're what its own typical daily move (0.6–0.8%) implies, projected forward from the live price above. Read them as a probability band, the same way you would the Tomorrow Prediction section.
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The Bank of England's MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) meetings — 8 per year — are GBP's primary scheduled volatility events. The quarterly Monetary Policy Report includes BoE's GDP and inflation forecasts that often move GBP significantly.
GBP is 11.9% of the DXY, so large GBP moves influence the broader DXY and therefore commodity prices. Indian IT companies with significant UK operations (TCS, Infosys, Wipro have large UK BFSI clients) also monitor GBP as a revenue translation variable.
The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes services CPI as a sub-component of headline inflation each month, and the Bank of England has repeatedly signalled that services inflation — not headline CPI — is the figure that determines whether it can safely cut rates. Services inflation is considered "stickier" because it reflects wage growth rather than volatile energy or goods prices. As long as UK services inflation sits meaningfully above the BoE's 2% target, GBP tends to stay supported on the expectation that rate cuts will be slower and smaller than markets might otherwise price.
UK services CPI (released monthly by ONS) is the single most watched domestic data point for GBP. The Bank of England cannot cut rates aggressively until services inflation falls below 5%.
Since the UK's 2020 departure from the EU single market, UK trade flows, labour market dynamics, and monetary policy cycles have diverged meaningfully from the Eurozone's. This means GBP/USD and EUR/USD — which used to move together closely as "European currencies" — now show more independent variation. UK-specific developments like immigration policy changes, trade deal negotiations, and the Bank of England's distinct policy path (which has moved both faster and slower than the ECB at different points since 2022) all show up as GBP-specific moves that do not appear in EUR/USD.
GBP/USD fell over 8% in a single session following the June 2016 Brexit referendum result — one of the largest one-day moves ever recorded in a major currency pair. More recently, the UK's September 2022 "mini-budget" — which proposed large unfunded tax cuts — triggered a UK government bond (gilt) market crisis and sent GBP/USD to an all-time low near 1.03 within days, forcing an emergency Bank of England intervention and the eventual resignation of the Prime Minister. Both episodes illustrate that GBP carries meaningfully higher political and fiscal-policy risk premium than most G10 currencies.
UK banking, insurance, and financial services (BFSI) clients form a substantial share of revenue for TCS, Infosys, and Wipro's European operations. A weakening GBP directly reduces the Rupee value of GBP-denominated contracts when translated at quarter-end, even if the underlying UK client relationship and billing volume are completely unchanged. This is a smaller effect than the USD translation impact (since US revenue is larger for most Indian IT majors) but is large enough that IT company earnings calls frequently mention GBP as a specific line-item currency headwind or tailwind.
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