Here's your Daily Currency Update – 10 September 2026

• The ECB has raised all three policy rates by 25 basis points, as expected.
• Deposit facility is now 2.50%, main refinancing 2.65%, marginal lending 2.90%, effective 16 September.
• Staff projections left 2026 inflation at 3.0% but lifted 2027 and 2028; growth for 2026 and 2027 was revised up. The Council is not pre-committed to a further path.
• The euro and the pound both slipped a little against a firmer dollar after the statement. GBP/EUR barely moved.
• US producer prices and jobless claims are due at 1:30pm UK; Christine Lagarde’s press conference follows.
• Tomorrow: UK GDP, industrial output and trade at 7:00am, then US CPI in the afternoon.
• Current mid-market ranges: GBP/EUR €1.1515–€1.1627 | GBP/USD $1.3367–$1.3521.
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The ECB delivered the widely flagged quarter-point rise and wrapped it in a hawkish-but-flexible package. The statement blamed ongoing Middle East energy pressures for keeping inflation “well above target for an extended period.” Headline inflation is seen at 3.0% in 2026, 2.5% in 2027 and 2.1% in 2028. Core is 2.5%, then 2.6%, then 2.3%. Growth was nudged higher to 0.9% this year and 1.4% next. Markets treated the numbers as confirmation rather than a shock: the dollar firmed, EUR/USD and GBP/USD eased from the morning highs, and the cross stayed almost unchanged.

The UK side of the last 24 hours is unchanged in substance. RICS’s August price balance improved to −28. Today’s 5-year gilt sale printed at 4.786%, above the previous 4.613%. Oil remains above $100. That mix — imported energy inflation plus high UK borrowing costs — is the backdrop into Lagarde’s press conference and tonight’s US producer-price data. Friday still matters more for sterling than this afternoon does.

• The pair remains just below last week’s 1.1668 area.
• Lagarde’s press conference is the next euro-specific test. Any hint of another hike in December would be a euro story first, a cross story second.
• Friday’s UK GDP (forecast 0.0% after +0.3%), factory output and goods trade are what can finally pull the cross out of its tight range.

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• The pair has slipped off the 1.3561 session high and is now sitting under this morning’s 1.3550 handle.
• US PPI and claims at 1:30pm UK are the immediate dollar test.
• Friday’s UK GDP cluster, then US CPI, is the two-step that can decide whether this dip is just a dollar bounce or a sterling story.

• Deposit rate 2.50%, refinancing rate 2.65%, lending facility 2.90%.
• Inflation seen above target through 2027; growth revised up for this year and next.
• Divergence versus sterling is still small. Both pairs eased together. A split would need Lagarde to sound clearly more hawkish than Friday’s UK data look.