{"id":30531,"date":"2026-03-12T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/uncategorized\/30531\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:58:48","slug":"for-a-third-session-gbp-usd-slips-to-weekly-lows-then-claws-back-towards-1-3400-slightly-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/live-updates\/30531\/","title":{"rendered":"For a third session, GBP\/USD slips to weekly lows, then claws back towards 1.3400, slightly down"},"content":{"rendered":"GBP\/USD fell for a third day and hit a weekly low near 1.3370 in the Asian session on Thursday. It later recovered a few pips to about 1.3400 and was down less than 0.15% on the day.\n\nThe US Dollar rose as traders moved towards safer assets amid ongoing fighting in the Middle East. This demand for the Dollar added pressure to GBP\/USD.\n\n<h3>Dollar Demand Rises On Geopolitical Risk<\/h3>\nIran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it launched a joint operation with Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah against targets in Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The report followed the most intense US-Israeli bombardments on Iran on Tuesday and pointed to a further escalation in the conflict between Israel-US forces and Iran.\n\nLooking back at the Middle East hostilities in 2025, we recall how the sharp flight to safety benefited the US Dollar. That event established a clear pattern of dollar strength during major geopolitical flare-ups, pressuring pairs like GBP\/USD. This memory should guide our strategies, as markets now price in a higher risk premium for regional instability.\n\nIn the coming weeks, we should anticipate that underlying volatility will remain elevated. This makes hedging with options a sensible approach, particularly buying put options on GBP\/USD to protect against a sudden downturn. Data shows that during the 2025 crisis, one-month implied volatility for the pair jumped by over 30%, and while it has settled, it remains above the five-year average.\n\nThe policy divergence between central banks will also be a key driver. With the US Federal Reserve signaling a more hawkish stance to curb persistent inflation, which sits at 3.1% as of last month&#8217;s data, the dollar has a fundamental tailwind. In contrast, the Bank of England is grappling with a weaker UK growth forecast of just 0.5%, making it less likely to match the Fed&#8217;s tightening cycle.\n\n<h3>Energy Markets And Portfolio Hedging<\/h3>\nWe must also consider the impact on energy markets, given the regions involved in last year&#8217;s conflict. Brent crude futures, which spiked to over $110 a barrel during the 2025 escalation, are sensitive to any new developments. Holding long positions in crude oil call options could therefore act as an effective portfolio hedge against a repeat of those events.\n\n<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/trade-now\/\">Create your live VT Markets account<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.vtmarkets.com\/login\">start trading<\/a>\u00a0now. <\/b>\n<p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Start trading now &#8211; Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/trade-now\/\">here<\/a> to create your real VT Markets account <\/strong> <\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GBP\/USD hit weekly low near 1.3370 as safe-haven dollar rose amid escalating Middle East conflict tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"josephine","author_link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/author\/josephine\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarketsglobal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}