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2022-09-02

With the current state of affairs in UK, it's highly probable. Unless USD crashes [Glance]

Once Unthinkable, Parity for Sterling Is on the Horizon

UK assets exposed to poor growth, big foreign capital needsOdds sterling is lower than dollar by yea

Once Unthinkable, Parity for Sterling Is on the Horizon

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This means if some of the top-end forecasts are realized, the UK could end up paying close to 3% of GDP next year on coupons for inflation-linked debt alone.Nonetheless, debt markets are becoming increasingly wary of the UK’s likely next prime minister. Liz Truss, who is strongly predicted to become PM on Sept. 5, has advocated reviewing the BOE’s mandate on setting interest rates.Interfering with the delicate pact that has evolved over the last several decades between more transparent central banks and the bond market would be laden with risks at the best of times. But when growth is about to slump, debt costs are rocketing, and the need for foreign capital enormous, it is taking the pin out of the grenade.The UK may avoid this fate, of course, but markets are increasingly taking a different view.Sterling versus the dollar is the world’s oldest traded currency pair, going back 250 years, but the implied probability of it hitting all-time lows of 1.05 by the end of the year is now 1-in-7. And, despite being in the realms of fantasy at the beginning of this year, even the 1-in-32 odds of sterling breaching the Rubicon of parity with the dollar now look like a reasonable bet. We have been warned.NOTE: Simon White writes for Bloomberg’s Markets Live blog. The observations he makes are his own and are not intended as investment advice. 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