Joshua Mahony

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An Iraqi investor looks at an electronic board showing shares’ information at the Iraqi stock exchange in Baghdad. Photograph: EPA/Ahmed Jalil
European shares rebound as progress on Brexit trade deal overshadows virus worries

European shares posted their best day in six weeks on Tuesday, rebounding from a sharp sell-off as optimism around Brexit and US stimulus helped to al(...)

In the US, the S&P 500 and the Dow slipped as a surge in coronavirus cases threatened to derail a fragile economic recovery. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP
Virus fears hit European shares as UK stocks rise on reopening hopes

European stocks ended higher on Friday, with the Stoxx 600 clocking its third straight week of gains as a jump in commodity-linked stocks helped to co(...)

Traders working in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. A handful of upbeat corporate results lifted European markets. Photograph: Thorsten Wagner/Bloomberg
European stocks at two-week high as US election lifts investor spirits

European stocks hit a more than two-week high on Thursday as strong quarterly earnings, fresh stimulus for Britain’s coronavirus-hit economy and post-(...)

Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May: While European markets advanced on the eve of invoking article 50, analysts cautioned that market sentiment will be dominated by developments during the negotiations. Photograph: Darren Staples/AFP/Getty
One in five investors fear no Brexit deal when UK leaves, Fitch finds

Almost one in five debt investors globally fear that the UK, which is posed to press the start button on two years of Brexit negotiations on Wednesday(...)

British prime minister Theresa May used her speech to confirm that the UK will not remain a member of the EU customs union. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AFP/Getty Images
Sterling rallies as market digests Theresa May’s Brexit speech

Sterling staged its biggest advance since at least 1998 on Tuesday as UK prime minister Theresa May pledged to put a deal on the country’s exit from (...)