The currency market had been dormant for a while, but this is now a theme of the past yet again. Throughout August, a first move higher from the Pound got met with a subsequent consolidation until the beginning of this month . GBP/USD peaked just above 1.37 on Wednesday’s announcement, but that rally didn’t stick — the pair now trades roughly 1.70% lower as the dollar staged a fierce comeback. What flipped the script was a rapid unwind of pre-FOMC downbeat USD bets: Powell’s more balanced tone and a re-credibilized Federal Reserve re-anchored the dollar (the latter could still be a bearish theme for the USD in the future). Let’s break down the multi-timeframe levels for GBPUSD and where to look next.