The pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar since the start of 2018 as the US currency surged and the prospect of the Bank of England raising interest rates this year dwindled.
Sterling dropped 0.5 per cent to a five-month low on Monday of $1.3412 after news that China and the US would put talk of a trade war ”on hold”.
The US had threatened to impose hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tariffs on Chinese imports, prompting rapid retaliation from Beijing, which last month announced its own tariffs on key US products including soya beans, aeroplanes and cars.
But on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the two sides would delay imposing [...]