The pound is on track for one of the biggest jumps against the dollar in the last decade
The pound is jumping like Greg Rutherford at the Olympics.Reuters/Phil Noble
Sterling is on track for its biggest third biggest daily gain against the dollar in the last 10 years, after several polls over the weekend showed the campaign to leave the EU losing momentum and the Remain camp gaining support with just days until the referendum.
A poll for the Mail on Sunday by Survation gave the In campaign 45% of the vote against 42% for Out. A separate poll for the Sunday Times by YouGov had Remain at 44% to Leave's 43%, and an Opinium poll for the Observer put the two sides neck and neck at 44%.
The results are a stark contrast to multiple polls last week that gave the Leave camp as much as a 6 point lead, leading to fears that Britain was hurtling towards a "Brexit" - a British exit from the European Union. That sent the pound and British stocks tumbling.
The pound is enjoying a relief rally on Monday after the polling swing. Sterling is up 2.41% against the dollar to 1.4705 at 4.10 p.m. BST (1.10 a.m. ET). If it hangs on to the gains the pound will have its best session since October 2008, when it jumped 2.52% in a day. The Financial Times reports that this will make it the third biggest daily jump against the dollar in the last 10 years.Investing.com
The pound is also up 2.64% against the Japanese Yen and the Euro is diving against the pound, down 1.85% to 0.7707.
Britain will go to the polls to vote on EU membership on Thursday, June 23. HSBC warns clients in a note on Monday that if the poll swing turns out to be unfounded and a Brexit does happen the pound could fall as much as 15% against the dollar amid "a global risk-off move in markets."
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