Sterling has continued to rise, climbing half a cent yesterday and this morning against the euro and slightly more against the US dollar.
In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed what he claims could be the final countdown to the end of lockdown restrictions, in four stages leading to mid-June. The Chancellor is expected to extend economic aid to the summer and there could be a type of vaccine passport (“covid certificate”).
There was disappointment in UK businesses that Easter breaks have effectively been cancelled again.
Greece has urged the EU to speed up plans for vaccine passports, as the EU reached 6% of its population vaccinated.
A BBC report found that as many as 1,000 European based finance firms are planning on opening UK offices for the first time.
In the US, Covid-related deaths passed half a million, while government economists are suggesting that the jobless total is closer to 10% than the official 6.3%.
Prosecutors in New York have been given the go ahead to comb through decades’ worth of Donald Trump’s tax records.
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