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Although a few uncertainties have been removed from the political landscape in recent days – hail Empress Regnant Theresa May – it would be a mistake to think that normality has now returned to the financial world. Far from it. Uncertainty rules.

Sterling still treads the low – rather than the high – paths while the outlook for the economy remains at best fragile.