By Margaret Yang, CMC Markets FX – Now is the time of the extreme volatility. Sterling tumbled nearly 1000 pips, or 6.5% early this morning, to the 1.41 area from the 1.50 area, as the early votes show the exit side in the lead in the UK’s referendum on EU membership. Although it is still too early to jump to …
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PM Lee: Brexit reflects anxiety of British population over immigration and relationship with EU
The United Kingdom has voted leave the European Union (EU) by a vote of 52% to 48% on 24 June 2016 in its referendum to decide whether to leave or remain in the EU. According to the results, Votes to leave the EU won the majority of votes in England and Wales, while every council in Scotland saw votes to remain …
Read More »FIDH: Government’s response to UN review a major setback for human rights
Paris, 24 June 2016: FIDH -International Federation for Human Rights said in a press release that the Singaporean government’s failure to accept a large number of key recommendations received during its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a major setback for human rights. Singapore did not accept 112 of the 236 recommendations made by UN member states on 27 January …
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