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• Cable rose to 1.35445 during the London morning as dollar sank against yen
• 1.35445 is five pips shy of Friday's peak (scaled before NFP beat boosted USD)
• USD/JPY slid to EBS seven-month low of 154.05 during the London morning
• 1.3521 was Asian session high for GBP/USD (1.3482 was Friday's low)
• UK finance minister Healey seeks to set out brighter vision before tough budget
• UBS forecasts 25 bps Fed rate hikes in both September and
December
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(Robert Howard is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)