The pound headed for its longest slide in a decade as traders looked ahead to key labor market data that could bolster the case for interest-rate cuts.

The pound is more like the Mexican peso than the US dollar. Its movements, since the Brexit vote, have become “neurotic at best, unfathomable at worst.” In short, sterling is more like an ...

The British pound sign, £, evolved from the Latin word libra, meaning scales, since the pound was originally worth exactly one pound of pure silver. For India, the process was more complicated. India ...

The British pound hit a fresh 31-year low in early trading Friday in Asia suddenly plunging more than 6% to near $1.18 as Brexit ... The pound hasn't hit these levels since a currency crash in 1985.

BITS ‘N’ PIECESAt 1,200 years of age, the British pound is the world’s oldest currency still in use. Dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, the pound has gone through many changes before evolving ...

The pound is doing worse so far this year than any other major currency. Argentina's peso is down 11.7% so far this year against the dollar. Argentina has been in deep economic crisis for years.

NEW DELHI — The Indian rupee joined the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the euro and the Japanese yen on Thursday when it got its very own symbol. The rupee’s new rune is a modification of a ...

If you are British, though, the pound sign is the £ that appears with a currency notation. And as to the phone dialpad "pound sign" they call that the "hash" or "square" in the U.K.

LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - In volatile currency markets, one trade stands out as an easy bet: selling the British pound. With the world's fifth-biggest economy grappling with a particularly ...

While the pound recently traded at a 31-year low against the dollar, and a six-year low against the euro, on Tuesday it hit its weakest level ever against a trade-weighted basket of currencies ...