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The British Pound saw its biggest decline in two months against the Euro as statistics indicate the UK has officially gone into another recession. The sterling also slid from a seven-month high versus the U.S dollar after GBP Gross Domestic Product Figures showed 0.2 percent drop for the first three months of 2012.
Despite the sharp slide of the Sterling, according to Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes,the British currency has grown 1.5 percent in the past month, which indicates the currency to be the best performer among the 10 developed nation currencies.Elsewhere the 17-nation currency fell 0.8 percent whilst the greenback showed a 0.2 percent decline in the past month.
In order for a nation to fall into a recession,Gross Domestic Product figures need to be on the decline for two consecutive quarters. Prior to the 0.2 percent drop for the first quarter of the year, the previous GDP figures also indicated a 0.3 percent drop.
