Morwenna Coniam
Editor, Bloomberg Markets Today at Bloomberg News
Journalist at Bloomberg News in London. Former Dublin BC, past lives in NYC and HK @business [email protected]. Opinions my own, retweets not endorsements
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Isabella Ward |Morwenna Coniam
Retail sales fell 1.3% in May from the year before, worse than economists’ expectations. Excluding fuel, they fell 2.8% on a monthly basis in May, after a bumper April. Including fuel, they fell 2.7%.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Morwenna Coniam
Dominating market sentiment this morning is news senior US officials are preparing for the possibility of a strike on Iran in the coming days, according to Bloomberg reporters. It comes after President Donald Trump has for days publicly mused about calling for such a strike on Iran, which has been engaged in a war with Israel for nearly a week.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Sam Unsted |Morwenna Coniam |Isabella Ward
FTSE 100 Live: Pound Rises as UK Inflation Stays Well Above BOE’s Target
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Morwenna Coniam |Isabella Ward |Sam Unsted
While the pound’s drop today follows a small advance yesterday, it’s notable that it’s again underperforming the majority of G-10 peers. Yesterday it lagged other currencies such as the euro, even as it benefitted from dollar weakness. A gauge of the dollar today is little changed, as attention is perhaps less on trade issues and more on concerns about the Middle East, so the pound’s decline is not purely a counterpoint to sentiment towards the US currency.
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1 month ago |
bloomberg.com | Morwenna Coniam |Sam Unsted
And closer to home, negotiators for the European Union and the UK have reached a deal to strengthen their bilateral relationship ahead of a summit meeting today, Alberto Nardelli reports. The agreement includes a defense and security partnership, a joint statement on working together on geopolitical challenges such as Russia’s war in Ukraine and a “common understanding” on a range of other issues.
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