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GBP Profile
Name: Pound sterling
Symbol: £
Minor Unit: 1/100 penny
Central Bank: Bank of England
Rank in the most traded currencies: #4
USD Profile
Name: United States dollar
Symbol: $
Minor Unit: 1/100 Cent
Central Bank: Federal Reserve Bank
Country(ies): United States, American Samoa
Rank in the most traded currencies: #1
Today's GBP-USD commentary
The current GBP-USD exchange rate is as we're writting near its highest level of the last fourteen days. The maximal level during this timeframe was GBP 1 = USD 1.2959 (0.4% higher than its actual level of GBP 1 = USD 1.2907), reached on August 8. This current high value of the GBP-USD exchange rate differs considerably from the much lower value (GBP 1 = USD 1.2668) observed on August 15, when a transfer of 4,000 GBP converted into only 5,067.27 USD (the exact same transfer converts to 5,162.92 USD now).