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In case you missed it: From ‘foe’ to friend?

  • 27 July 2018

The economic news this week broadly confirmed what we already knew; that the US is booming and the European Central Bank has no plans to raise interest rates before next summer. But there was one surprise and it's got investors excited. President Trump's trans-Atlantic truce on trade helped to calm fears of an all-out tariff war. But can we really relax? 

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