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GBPUSD at 1.33734, 23.8 pips of range in the New York session

USD Flash Manufacturing and Services PMI land at 13:45 UTC, 14 minutes away

GBPUSD · New York session · Published Oct 23, 2026, 1:30 PM

GBPUSD last prints 1.33734, inside a New York session that has run between 1.33648 and 1.33885 for 23.8 pips. The nearest level above is the prior week high at 1.33718, 1.6 pips up, then the previous session high at 1.33876, 14.2 pips up; below sit the session open at 1.33699, 3.5 pips down, and the previous session low at 1.33668, 6.6 pips down.

London traded a 20.8 pip range between 1.33668 and 1.33876 and closed at 1.33700, while the prior day covered 64.1 pips from 1.33550 to 1.34191. An ordinary day of the last 14 covers 74.9 pips, and the latest day sits at the 55th percentile of the last 44 days we hold, which is an ordinary day for this market.

The USD Flash Manufacturing PMI is scheduled for 13:45 UTC with a forecast of 55.4 against a previous 57.0, and the Flash Services PMI for the same time with 57.9 against 58.7. Over 95 past releases of this family GBPUSD moved 9.30 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 16.02 in the first 60, in either direction. At 14:00 UTC the Revised UoM Inflation Expectations follow, forecast 4.7% against a previous 4.7%.

Large speculators are net short 106964 contracts, a change of -9353 on the week and the 0th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports. The most recent headline graded for GBPUSD is the FXStreet piece on the US Dollar into FOMC with election risks, published at 12:32 UTC at impact 2 of 3.

Session brief

  1. GBPUSD, New York sessionOpen 1.33699, high 1.33885, low 1.33648, close 1.33734: a range of 23.8 pips over 91 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  2. GBPUSD reference levelsPrevious day and previous week high and low, the session open and the round numbers either side, measured on our own candles.
  3. GBPUSD, London sessionOpen 1.33825, high 1.33876, low 1.33668, close 1.33700: a range of 20.8 pips over 300 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  4. GBPUSD daily rangeAn ordinary day of the last 14 covers 74.9 pips. The latest day sits at the 55th percentile of the last 44 days we hold, which is an ordinary day for this market. Measured on our own candles.
  5. USD Flash Services PMIScheduled 2026-10-23 13:45 UTC, impact 2 of 3. Forecast 57.9. Previous 58.7. From Forex Factory.
  6. GBPUSD reaction to pmi_usdOver 95 past releases GBPUSD moved 9.30 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 16.02 in the first 60, in either direction. Measured on our own one-minute candles.
  7. USD Revised UoM Inflation ExpectationsScheduled 2026-10-23 14:00 UTC, impact 2 of 3. Forecast 4.7%. Previous 4.7%. From Forex Factory.
  8. CFTC Commitments of Traders, 096742Large speculators are net short 106964 contracts, a change of -9353 on the week. That is the 0th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports.
  9. US Dollar: Resilient into FOMC with election risks – TD SecuritiesFXStreet. Graded impact 2 of 3 for GBPUSD by our headline classifier.
  10. USD Flash Manufacturing PMIScheduled 2026-10-23 13:45 UTC, impact 2 of 3. Forecast 55.4. Previous 57.0. From Forex Factory.

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