A hawkish policy cluster is forming across New Zealand's confirmed hike and rising Bank of England rate bets, but the Dollar Index's flat, low-volatility tape and still-building (not crowded) sterling long show the market has not yet priced this as a coordinated regime shift.

What would prove it wrong

If GBP/USD and the US Dollar Index fail to move meaningfully beyond their recent 20-day ranges in the sessions following the Bank of England repricing, the hawkish-cluster thesis fails and positioning inertia dominates instead.

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