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Should we be sad or happy that the pound has buckled?

10 August 2019

9:00 AM

10 August 2019

9:00 AM

A wave to the FT team whose weekend feature on how the pound has been hit by fears of no deal began with this arresting sentence: ‘Sterling has finally buckled.’ I almost spilled my café crème as I read that in a sunlit French square and contemplated JP Morgan’s ‘conservative’ forecast of a $1.15

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