Published on: Friday, May 07, 2021
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Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon (R)) and candidate Roza Salih (C) pose for a selfie with a voter at Annette Street school polling station in Glasgow.
LONDON: Voters went to the polls for “Super Thursday” elections that could reshape the UK as pro-independence forces in Scotland bid to break away, in the first major electoral test since Brexit and the coronavirus crisis.
The regional and local elections will test backing for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives after he led Britain out of the EU and through the pandemic, overseeing Europe’s highest death toll but also its fastest vaccine rollout.
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The greenback ended the day higher against majority of its peers on Tuesday due to a rebound in U.S. Treasury yields together with comments from U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said U.S. interest rates may need to rise.
Reuters reported U.S. interest rates may need to rise to prevent the economy from overheating as more of U.S. President Joe Biden s economic investment programs come on line, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested in remarks released Tuesday. It may be that interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make sure that our economy doesn t overheat, even though the additional spending is relatively small relative to the size of the economy, she said in taped remarks to a virtual event put on by The Atlantic. It could cause some very modest increases in interest rates to get that reallocation, but these are investments our economy needs to be competitive and to be productive (and) I think that our econom