Brexit

Ahead of the next vote (on January 29th), British Prime Minister Theresa May is looking for modifications to the Irish backstop in order to gain enough support to get her Brexit deal through Parliament. But few Members of Parliament (MPs) were impressed by May's approach, saying that she was in...

The iShares MSCI Ireland ETF (NYSE: EIRL), the lone U.S.-listed exchange traded fund dedicated to Irish equities, is up 6.34 percent year-to-date, an impressive performance considering the Brexit backdrop. With the U.K.'s departure from the European Union looming, some analysts and market...

The GBP/USD is trading down back in the middle of the old range in 1.2800s as plan B for Brexit is unlikely to surprise. The UK Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to present Plan B in the House of Commons on Monday with a new plan being reportedly pretty much the same as the original. The GBP...

A long weekend looms, but before that, there’s a lot to digest. Perhaps topping the list is the latest scuttlebutt around trade with China (see more below). Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) earnings also rank high, with shares down 3% in pre-market trading after a Q4 revenue miss. Automaker...

Good day, Brexit over the past week has unfolded like a soap opera for the supply chain set. Every day brings a new cliffhanger — "Prime Minister Theresa May is out!" —  only to be followed by an anti-climax — "Wait! May is still in!" FreightWaves ...

The Labour Party has demanded that Theresa May takes the prospect of no deal (on Brexit) off the table following the failed motion of no confidence in the government yesterday. Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, called May's invitation for talks a "stunt" and refused to...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will go down in history after her Brexit proposal suffered the biggest defeat ever by 230 votes in Parliament. But on Wednesday, many of the politicians who didn't support her Brexit proposal agreed to keep her in power. This could be seen as a sign that...

In the auto scene's contentious race to the top, General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) has the edge on Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), according to one analyst team. The Rating Morgan Stanley analysts Adam Jonas and Armintas Sinkevicius maintained an Overweight on GM rating with a $44 price target....

Logistics and transport industry figures have reacted with alarm following the British Government's significant defeat in the House of Commons yesterday, fearing that the result brings a disastrous "no deal Brexit" closer, but a bounce in the value of the pound shows the markets are...

Investors and businesses were digesting the latest developments in the U.K’s stumble toward an exit from the European Union with as much uncertainty as the nation itself has about how, when or if it will actually occur.  Britain’s FTSE 100 was down — but not...