Cable last trades flattish at $1.2079 after...>

CABLE: Cable last trades flattish at $1.2079 after adding 43 pips yesterday.

After edging lower from the off yesterday, the rate advanced through London

hours. It had a brief look above $1.2100, but after failing to make much headway

beyond there it eased off from highs.

- Bears target yesterday's multi-year low of $1.2015, bulls eye $1.2100.

- U.S. National Security Advisor Bolton visited London yesterday, expressing

support for a "successful exit from the EU on Oct 31" and offering the UK

sector-by-sector post-Brexit trade deals.

- BBG reported that the UK gov't doesn't exp. Brussels to soften its stance for

at least a month, as it will watch the MPs' attempts to prevent a disorderly

divorce. An unnamed cabinet minister told the Sun that PM Johnson thinks the EU

will make a new Brexit deal w/ him to avoid disastrous consequences for Ireland.

Elsewhere, per the Telegraph, 54% of polled UK adults said that if needed, PM

Johnson should prorogue parliament to force a no-deal Brexit.

- UK labour mkt report will be published today. Inflation data hits on

Wednesday, while retail sales come out on Thursday.