- Cable rises an excess half-cent to 1.5430 on upbeat UK earnings
- Quarterly annualized earnings +2.1% in Dec vs +1.7% forecast
- Spread of UK earnings over UK CPI more than doubled to 1.6% in Dec
- Lift for hawks advocating BoE rate hike before year-end
- 1.55 among cable bull targets beyond 1.5441 (Monday's 6week peak)