Singapore to lift border restrictions with Australia, Vietnam 0 (0)

Singapore announces that it will lift border restrictions for visitors from Australia and Vietnam from 8 October
This adds to travelers from Brunei and New Zealand, which were already approved to enter Singapore in early September. But there will still be a travel restriction applied to Australians from the state of Victoria at this point in

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EUR/USD inches back towards 1.1700 as sellers wrestle back some near-term control 0 (0)

EUR/USD falls to a session low of 1.1702 as sellers look for a firm break below the 200-hour moving average
The euro has had a decent start to the week in the past two days but all of that is under threat now as sellers are looking to stage a return with a push back under

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UK PM Johnson: Shortcomings of UK labour market made painfully apparent by virus crisis 0 (0)

Comments by UK prime minister, Boris Johnson
– UK economy is under-productive
– The economy has been shaken by the virus crisis
– UK has shortages of many crucial skills
Pretty much just stating the fact, but the slack in the UK labour market has been rather well documented for quite a while already even before the pandemic struck.

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Germany’s Roth in letter to UK government: A fair Brexit deal is still possible 0 (0)

German minister of state for Europe, Michael Roth, comments in a letter to the UK government as seen by Der Spiegel
Just some added posturing by the EU camp as negotiations are still ongoing this week. So far, there are little details on how things are progressing but given that the first key deadline is 15

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