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Sunday 26 June 2016 9:03 pm

The pound is falling further on the dollar after Friday’s historic drop

By: William Turvill

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The pound dropped 1.9 per cent on Sunday evening UK time, extending a fall of more than eight per cent on Friday.

Sterling racked up its worst daily fall on records dating back to 1971 at the end of last week after the UK voted for a Brexit.

Read more: Sterling suffers historic crash as Brits back Brexit

At one stage, the pound fell as low as $1.3224, more than 10 per cent down on highs of $1.50 reached on Thursday, before closing at $1.3684.

At around 11pm UK time on Sunday evening, the early hours of Sunday trading in Asia, the pound was down a further 1.9 per cent to $1.3421.

Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, told City PM on Sunday: “How the political instability will play into sentiment around sterling is anybody’s guess, but I’m guessing it’s probably not going to be that positive.”

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