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Let’s have a dose of business sense in Downing Street before it’s too late

17 June 2017

9:00 AM

17 June 2017

9:00 AM

Take no notice of the resilience of the FTSE100 index, which, having reached record pre-election highs, shed barely 100 points at its opening last Friday and recovered most of them by Monday. Dominated by multinational companies, it is being sustained by global market sentiment and the relative weakness of the pound, which makes our blue chips look good value; it is not offering a signal that investors think all is well.

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