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Shorting sterling

The pound is worth shorting in the near term, although the slide will be fairly modest
May 16, 2012

I am short the pound at $1.5961, says Matt Shaw at www.financialtrading.co

My projections have the pound heading lower, now that the support at $1.5986 has been broken. The immediate target is around $1.58, whereupon I envisage taking profits and buying into a rally back towards $1.60. Still, I don't see sterling getting much beyond that level for the next couple of weeks.