So if you consider half a cent rise to be "good", what do you make of a seventeen cent fall.

I only said that the growth figures were good, and that they triggered a rise in sterling.
I passed to comment on that rise, but it was a significant rise according to both the Telegraph and the Independent, and none of you were able to find anyone saying it was not.
Those two normally staid and reserved publications both described the pound as having "soared."