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Pound falls to 37-year low on anniversary of Black Wednesday
Reuters via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoLONDON (Reuters) -Sterling marked the 30th anniversary of "Black Wednesday" by falling to a fresh...
Pound Marks ‘Black Wednesday’ With Drop to Lowest Since 1985
Bloomberg via Yahoo News UK· 2 years ago(Bloomberg) -- Most Read from BloombergSouthwest Mexico Struck by 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake,...
Sterling's plunge is laden with irony 30 years on from Black Wednesday
Sky News via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoThis weakness in sterling comes in spite of the fact that the Bank of England has been raising...
Why Black Wednesday still matters – it was the start of markets telling politicians what to do
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoI spent Black Wednesday – the day the markets successfully bet against the power of the British government to prop up the pound sterling – on the 28th floor of Dresdner Bank’s headquarters in ...
The economic outlook is finally picking up — just in time for Starmer and Reeves
Evening Standard via Yahoo Finance UK· 2 weeks agoIs everything coming up (red) roses for Keir and Rachel economically speaking? Their predecessors,...
OPINION - An improving economy won't save the Tories
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 1 month agoWhen the economy is tanking, the government gets the blame. Just ask John Major, who couldn't even convince one in three Britons to support the...
Highest rise in UK interest rates since 1989 despite 'looming long recession'
Euronews via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoUK finance minister Jeremy Hunt said Thursday's 0.75% hike by the Bank of England would be "very...
Thirty years on, sterling suffers a new hammering
Evening Standard via Yahoo Finance UK· 2 years agoIt was 30 years ago today — and few people working in the markets, or indeed reporting on them, at the time, are ever likely to forget it. On September...
Voices: Tory sleaze is back – it’s like the 1990s all over again
The Independent via Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoAfter he lost the 1997 election to Tony Blair by a landslide, Major pleaded there wasn’t much he...
Kwasi Kwarteng sacked as Chancellor after just 38 days in job
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoThe Chancellor was on Friday forced out of his job amid backlash over his mini-budget. Kwasi...
