{"id":112527,"date":"2019-09-30T15:57:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/30\/government-questioned-on-hedge-funds-speculating-on-no-deal-brexit-business-live\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:57:02","slug":"government-questioned-on-hedge-funds-speculating-on-no-deal-brexit-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=112527","title":{"rendered":"Government questioned on hedge funds speculating on no-deal Brexit &#8211; business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An urgent parliamentary question will examine claims Boris Johnson\u2019s supporters are shorting the poundLatest: urgent question being heard nowUrgent question on pound-shorting claimsHammond \u2018right\u2019 to question Johnson\u2019s backersOdey: I\u2019m not backing Brexit to make money 2.57pm BST Labour MP Helen Goodman asks about Crispin Odey\u2019s shorting of housebuilders (Berkeley Group) and shopping centres (INTU) (as I wrote yesterday).Won\u2019t this mean he \u201cmakes a packet\u201d after a no-deal Brexit, when we can\u2019t build homes and shops will close? 2.53pm BST Former Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable asks if the government is happy for sterling to fall to any level?Clarke says the government doesn\u2019t set a fixed price for sterling &#8211; it\u2019s important to allow currencies to move, and he\u2019s certain that the pound can find the appropriate level under any circumstances. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2019\/sep\/30\/firms-uk-economy-confidence-brexit-trade-war-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">Government questioned on hedge funds speculating on no-deal Brexit &#8211; business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An urgent parliamentary question will examine claims Boris Johnson\u2019s supporters are shorting the poundLatest: urgent question being heard nowUrgent question on pound-shorting claimsHammond \u2018right\u2019 to question Johnson\u2019s backersOdey: I\u2019m not backing Brexit to make money 2.57pm BST Labour MP Helen Goodman asks about Crispin Odey\u2019s shorting of housebuilders (Berkeley Group) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}