08-07-2016 12:39 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Brexit batters UK consumer confidence, retailers worry over sterling

By Andy Bruce and James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - British consumer confidence suffered one of its biggest drops in 21 years and the country's largest department store expressed concern over the pound's fall, in the strongest evidence to date of the challenges Britain's economy faces after the Brexit vote. The vote to leave the European Union has thrust Britain into its worst political crisis in modern times. Investors have warned that what was ranked as the world's fifth largest economy faces yea
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