LONDON—Sterling paused on Tuesday, after surging almost 2 percent the day before, as improved investor sentiment sent the safe haven U.S. dollar lower against major peers following the UK’s dramatic U-turn on its fiscal plans.
On Monday, new finance minister Jeremy Hunt scrapped most of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic plan and scaled back her energy support scheme, making a historic policy U-turn to try to stem a loss of investor confidence since former finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng announced on Sept. 23 a string of tax cuts with no details of how they would be paid for.
