Hints and tips:
...By Daniel Thomas, Philip Georgiadis, Peter Campbell, Abby Wallace, Owen Walker, George Hammond, Sylvia Pfeifer and Jonathan Eley...
...fiscal plan, risk premia on UK gilts and sterling assets seems to have subsided....
...Instead, it builds packages when customers want to go and does not try to predict whether the Balearics or Bodrum will be 2020’s destination of choice....
...Nationwide, HSBC and M&S Bank all offer 5 per cent interest for those who save up to £250 a month....
...to Lee Hardman, analyst at MUFG....
...Analysts at Bernstein, for example, last week highlighted the risk of a drop in sterling, as well as a sharp fall in house prices and a rise in unemployment....
...At the close of trade in New York, the S&P 500 equity index was down 0.3 per cent at 2,066, after recording its highest close of the year on Friday....
...and Samsung ’s Gear VR in the fast-emerging market....
...UK market stability is in part thanks to sterling, whose first-half strength and recent slide smoothed out the FTSE 100’s peaks and troughs....
...Thomas Lee, equity strategist at JPMorgan, argued that “May plunges bring June lunges”, with the catalyst being a calming of credit markets following Europe’s bank-stabilisation efforts....
...Interestingly, Thomas Lee, equity strategist at JPMorgan, points out that since the ”flash crash” on May 6, European stocks have outperformed US stocks by 6.5 percentage points....
...The dollar remains far and away the most important currency for invoicing and settling international transactions, including even imports and exports that do not touch U.S. shores....
...Sterling pared its gains against the euro and slipped slightly versus the dollar....
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