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Currency markets largely sat out the market turmoil brought about by rising fears of a trade war, in which China could retaliate to Trump’s tariffs.

The Pound briefly touched its strongest position since February on Thursday after the Bank of England signalled rate hike in May.

The Federal Reserve voted anonymously on Wednesday to raise interest rates for the first timer in 2018. The Bank of England to meet today at 12:00 UK time.

With an expected 25 basis point hike this evening the US Dollar will instead be driven mostly by the release of the Fed’s updated ‘dot plot’.

Britain and the European Union had agreed a transitional Brexit period that would last from 29th March 2019 to December 2020.

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The key March meeting of the Federal Reserve looms just ahead. Policymakers in the US are almost certain to raise interest rates on Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve is overwhelmingly expected to increase the interest rates again in the United States next Wednesday, and up to four times in 2018.

Mario Draghi continued to suggest during his speech yesterday that an interest rate increase in the Eurozone remains some way off.

The US Dollar sank 0.7% against its peers, with another departure from the Trump administration and the release of the latest inflation data.