The Great Britain pound fell to its lowest historical value against the euro today after the pessimistic economic news were released in UK. Pound also lowered against other major currencies today.

Two major news releases came out today in UK — consumer confidence and new permanent jobs.

The labor market in February was declining according to the KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. They reported that the number of the new workers placed in permanent jobs fell down for the first time in almost 5 years.

Nationwide Consumer Confidence Index also declined in February. According to the released report it fell down from 81 to 78 — the all-time low for this index. Martin Ganbauer, Nationwide’s senior economist said:

The continued downward trend in consumer confidence is to be expected given the effect of higher food and fuel costs on people? s pockets. In addition, growing uncertainty about future economic conditions is also likely to have affected consumers? overall sentiment. Despite this, consumers remain relatively positive about their employment situation both now and in six months time. It is perhaps too early for the base rate reduction at the beginning of February to have had any effect, but it is unlikely in current conditions that consumer confidence will return to the highs of 2007.

EUR/GBP reached its all-time high value at 0.7689 and as of 11:02 GMT it is trading at 0.7670. GBP/USD currency pair fell down from 1.9863 to 1.9794 today.

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