UK BBA August mortgage approvals 26 Sept 2016

  • 37,672 prev
  • re-mortgage approvals 23,940 vs 25490 prev
  • net mortg lending £+1.018bln vs 1.654bln prev
  • net credit card lending +£0.136bln vs +0.29bln prev

Lowest mortgage approvals rate since Jan 2015 and backing up softer house price data of late.

GBPUSD back up to 1.2930 though after running into the 1.2900-15 demand again and EURGBP fails to breach the strong offers at 0.8700 I've also been highlighting.