{"id":65181,"date":"2018-08-10T02:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65181"},"modified":"2018-08-10T02:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T06:10:19","slug":"sterling-plunges-to-2018-lows-as-brexit-unease-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/sterling-plunges-to-2018-lows-as-brexit-unease-builds.html","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Plunges to 2018 Lows as Brexit Unease Builds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) The pound suffered a heavy sell-off on Wednesday, skidding to its lowest levels against the dollar and euro in almost a year as markets ramped up bets on Britain leaving the EU without an agreement with Brussels on their future relationship. London-based traders reported a significant increase in investors hedging against a \u2018no-deal\u2019 Brexit, an event which could send sterling into freefall and hurt the economy by raising trade barriers with the UK\u2019s biggest export market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-sterling-britain\/sterling-plunges-to-2018-lows-as-brexit-unease-builds-idUSKBN1KT0P5\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) The pound suffered a heavy sell-off on Wednesday, skidding to its lowest levels against the dollar and euro in almost a year as markets ramped up bets on Britain leaving the EU without an agreement with Brussels on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65182,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181\/revisions\/65182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}