Sterling has rallied strongly against the euro, pushing up over 1.09

Sterling strengthened as much as 2.2% to a ten-day high of 1.0936 against the euro yesterday, its biggest intra-day gain since Jan 30th.

• Sterling was able to post strong gains following bullish comments from a Bank of England policymaker who stated that quantitative easing is in fact working.
  
• MPC member Paul Fisher told the Financial Times he felt confident that the bank’s asset purchase programme was ‘having the scale and speed of impact that we would have hoped for when we started,’ back in March.
  
• Analysts said that the comments were perceived as lessening the chances that the central bank would expand its loose monetary policy at their next meeting in November, which to some extent, had already been priced into the market.
  
• His comments echoed those made by fellow MPC member, and deputy Bank governor, Charles Bean, who said on Tuesday that as the recovery proceeds, the Bank would need gradually to remove the large monetary stimulus or risk overshooting its 2 per cent inflation target.
  
• Sentiment towards the pound has remained buoyant in trading this morning, with the pound currently consolidating its positions above 1.09.