Pound Sterling was wallowing deep in the red against most counterpart currencies ahead of the weekend with dire economic figures and the Prime Ministerial selection process dominating the agenda while eliciting much commentary from analysts and economists. Sterling exchange rates were a sea of red throughout much of a Friday session that had gotten underway with the release of dire retail sales figures from the Office for National Statistics covering the month of September. The data told of a well-established downtrend on the high street sales deepening to pull total sales back below their pre-coronavirus level in ... (full story)