The euro remained stable on Friday while the pound fell slightly against the euro and the dollar, in a market digesting the announcements of the Bank of England made the day before, and in particular that concerning possible rates negative interest.

Around 7:15 p.m. GMT (9:15 p.m. in Paris), the euro grabbed 0.02% against the greenback, at 1.1849 dollars.

The pound, for its part, lost 0.36% against the greenback at 1.2926 dollars, and 0.38% against the euro at 91.67 pence.

As since the middle of the week, the yen recorded gains against the dollar (+0.11% to 104.62 yen for one dollar).

The Canadian dollar weakened against the currency of its American neighbor (-0.26% to 1.32 Canadian dollar for one dollar), especially after a statement by the head of Canadian diplomacy.

François-Philippe Champagne said the idea of holding talks for a free trade agreement between Ottawa and Beijing was abandoned, given the strained economic relations between the two countries.

With no other significant movement in the currency market, commentators continued to point to Thursday's announcements from the Bank of England (BoE).

This paved the way for an increase in its massive asset purchase program by the end of the year. Above all, she declared that she had begun to study how a negative key interest rate could be implemented in practice.

This is not "a fait accompli", nevertheless indicated Ulrich Leuchtmann, analyst for Commerzbank.

“Even in the worst-case scenario of a no-deal Brexit, the BoE might call in quantitative easing first,” he added.