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Pound at three-week high on QE relief

By Neil Dennis

Published: October 15 2009 11:47 | Last updated: October 15 2009 23:56

Sterling jumped to a three-week high against the dollar on Thursday after comments from Bank of England policymakers that quantitative easing was working.

Monetary policy committee member Paul Fisher told the Financial Times that the asset purchase programme was “having the scale and speed of impact that we would have hoped for when we started in March”.

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