ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Employment rate plummets amid sterling rate drop – this is not coincidental
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Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
EARLIER this month, the euro-US dollar (EUR/USD) exchange rate fell about the same time that sterling fell after the Bank of England raised its main interest rate by 0.75 percentage points to 3 per cent. This brought borrowing costs to the highest level since 2008.
The exchange rate shift has also resulted in a slowdown in employment growth.
This is a direct result of the US Federal Reserve tightening its policy earlier this year around longer-term interest rates that have moved significantly higher, where stock prices have declined sharply and the dollar has increased in value.
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