Devin Wang

Farming practices are changing as summer months become increasingly hot and dry, and winters grow milder.

If Britain's brewing economic storm looks like an outlier, UK markets have yet to reflect that fully - but investors may yet balk at the winter ahead.

UK short-term borrowing costs set for biggest weekly jump since 2009.

The economic outlook for Germany is gloomy due to energy price rises and supply chain disruptions, the finance ministry said on Friday, a message underscored by a record jump in producer prices.

The economic calendar does not offer much today. EUR/USD is stretching to the lowest levels since mid-July, not far from parity, which will not please the European Central Bank.

In what turned out to be a fairly choppy and disjointed session, markets in Europe finished the day higher, as did markets in the US, helped mainly by a rebound in the energy and basic resource sectors.

Europe's power crunch is taking a rising toll on the region's industrial metals sector, with two more smelters this week announcing plans to halt operations.

Now, we wanted to examine how a victory by either candidate could influence the pound sterling.

"The natural buyers of this additional supply might be hard to find."

British households are feeling "a sense of exasperation" about the surging cost of living which has pushed consumer sentiment to its lowest since at least 1974, according to the country's longest-running survey of household finances.