{"id":52862,"date":"2018-08-06T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/06\/german-factory-orders-slump-brexit-fears-push-pound-to-11-month-low-business-live\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:54:30","slug":"german-factory-orders-slump-brexit-fears-push-pound-to-11-month-low-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52862","title":{"rendered":"German factory orders slump; Brexit fears push pound to 11-month low \u2013 business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the day\u2019s economic and financial news, as Germany\u2019s manufacturers suffer a big drop in new orders, and the pound falls towards $1.29Latest: Brexit worries send pound to 11-month lowLiam Fox\u2019s warning blamed for sterling\u2019s slideEarlier:Introduction: German factory orders slump 4%Trade tensions blamed for biggest drop in 17 monthsExperts: Horrendous data 2.54pm BST Polling company ORB has bad news for the government: public support for Theresa May\u2019s handling of the Brexit negotiations has hit a record low.Just 24% of the public approve of the way things are going, they say, things are going well, down from 40% back in April.NEW Public confidence in the #Brexit negotiations continues to fall, hitting another record low. 76% say they disapprove of the way in which the Government is handling the negotiations. Full tables\/charts here: https:\/\/t.co\/Gn3C3ZU51N#UK #TheresaMay #politics pic.twitter.com\/wcB75eEjat 2.16pm BST European stock markets have slipped into the red today.Investors are worrying about the decline in German factory orders in June and the lack of Brexit progress, meaning the FTSE 100 didn\u2019t get its typical boost from the weakening pound.\u201cEuropean stock markets opened mixed today as the trade dispute between the US and China continues to hang over investors and stocks&#8230;There has been an marked escalation in the trade war, with President Trump\u2019s claiming the US was winning the trade dispute.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2018\/aug\/06\/german-factory-orders-slump-trade-war-intensifies-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">German factory orders slump; Brexit fears push pound to 11-month low \u2013 business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the day\u2019s economic and financial news, as Germany\u2019s manufacturers suffer a big drop in new orders, and the pound falls towards $1.29Latest: Brexit worries send pound to 11-month lowLiam Fox\u2019s warning blamed for sterling\u2019s slideEarlier:Introduction: German factory orders slump 4%Trade tensions blamed for biggest drop in 17 monthsExperts: Horrendous [&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-52862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862","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=52862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}