A light calendar day to wrap up the trading week

A light calendar day to wrap up the trading week

Happy Friday, everyone! Hope you're all doing well as we look towards the session ahead.

The pound is the breakout story since overnight trading after Juncker's interview alluded to some potential for a Brexit deal and that saw cable break above key resistance levels above the 100-day moving average and the 1.2500 handle.

Meanwhile, the dollar remains a fair bit more sluggish - particularly against European currencies - as markets continue to search for fresh direction after the FOMC meeting.

Looking ahead, there isn't much in terms of data to move things along so it'll be all about the ebb and flow as we look to wrap things up this week.

0600 GMT - Germany August PPI figures

Prior release can be found here. A proxy and lagging indicator of inflationary pressures, as such it isn't really a major data release by any means.

That's all for the session ahead. I wish you all the best of days to come and good luck with your trading!