It has come down slightly, Nudging Par 77 a barrel. To explain why markets responded so quickly on thursday, heres our economics editor, faisal islam. In the aftermath of irans ballistic Missile Attack and as we wait for news on Israels Response there has been a rise in the price and that means since the attacks it is up 10 to over 77 a barrel on the Brent Crude measure, still down on the year because of local economic concerns but the spike up economic concerns but the spike up occurred immediately after president biden added to Suggestions Israel would target Irans Oilfacilities. Reporter would you support israel striking Irans Oil facilities . Israel striking Irans Oil facilities . ,. , facilities . We are discussing that. I facilities . We are discussing that. |think facilities . We are discussing that. L think that facilities . We are discussing that. I think that would facilities . We are discussing that. I think that would be i facilities . We are discussing that. I think that w
We start with brexit, because as youve been hearing, britain and the eu are in a last minute scramble to agree a deal to be put before a summit of european leaders which begins in brussels in a few hours time. Any agreement would then need the approval of parliament here in london. In case anyone needs reminding, the uk is due to leave the eu in less than two weeks. At 23 00 gmt on 31 october. Prime minister borisjohnson has repeatedly said this will happen, regardless of a deal or not. Under a law passed last month, he must ask the eu for an extension to that deadline. Thats if he does not get a new deal approved by parliament this saturday. The European Union is britains biggest trading partner. Last year, 46 of all uk exports went to the eu and 54 of all imports came from the eu, according to data from the uk parliament. If britain leaves without a deal, disruption to business could be huge, despite attempts to prepare. The governments own efficiency watchdog, the National Audit off
This shot of the prime minister, he looks like hes behind bars and hes looking pretty stressed out. Yep. Brexiteer on a knife edge as dd does make dup blocks. Anything with Boris Johnson looking dishevelled and distressed, pretty much every second day at the moment, of course this is massive, massive news today. We are waiting, really whether we do have a deal. We have to go back into the last few months, we are in this situation with theresa may, we had some kind of deal that was then taken back, now we have almost com pletely taken back, now we have almost completely regressed back to a situation because of theresa mays deal not being voted through. We sit on this knife edge of the uk resting on this knife edge of the uk resting on the thoughts of dup and the leader of the dup about Northern Ireland, and the removal of the irish backstop. Of course there would be a lot of people looking at this and saying why do the dup even matter . And i think a lot of people are still asking that
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