UK prime minister Theresa May this week pleaded with MPs to “hold their nerve” and back her Brexit deal or face the prospect that the “only certainty would be uncertainty”. “Don’t let anyone here think that there is a better deal to be won by shouting louder. And do not imagine that if we vote this down a different deal is going to miraculously appear. DUP MPs lined up against May, claiming it “vindicated” its opposition to the backstop, and that it was “devastating” for May. The Nasdaq weakened 1.9 per cent, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 2.7 per cent, before closing down 0.3 per cent.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2018 18:16 UTC