LONDON BRIEFING: Pound Jumps As UK And EU Agree To Continue To Talk
Mon, 14th Dec 2020 08:05
(Alliance News) - The pound rose sharply after the UK and EU agreed on Sunday to waive their self-imposed deadline for a post-Brexit trade agreement and continue talking, possibly right up to the end of the transition period on December 31.
Against the dollar, the pound was up one-and-a-half US cents early Monday from its level late on Friday as the Sunday deadline had loomed.
Also in focus for the stock market early Monday was takeover activity, after AstraZeneca announced a massive acquisition in the US, while an American video-games giant waded in with an agreed offer for the UK s Codemasters.
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Highest Console Launch Month Figures Since the PS4
In case you haven’t heard, the PS5 is pretty cool–at least, we sure think so, even if we also agree it could use some work. And judging by these record-breaking sales figures, we’re not alone. NPD’s November stats announce that the PlayStation 5 broke several records, and among them was having the highest console launch month in the US. That last one is so noteworthy that the NPD’s Matt Piscatella started tweeting about it just to make sure the message was out there.
US NPD HW – PlayStation 5 achieved the highest launch month unit and dollar sales for a video game hardware platform in U.S. history. The records were previously held by the PlayStation 4, which debuted in November 2013.