Pound selloff intensifies, government bond, FTSE rally fades after Liz Truss press conference – as it happened

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Liz Truss announces U-turn on corporation tax but fails to give the reassurances the public and markets were looking for

Danni Hewson, financial analyst at the stockbroker AJ Bell, says about Liz Truss’s climbdown on corporation tax:

It may have, temporarily, been an incentive for businesses to overlook the tangle of red tape and additional costs associated with trading in a post Brexit world. But at what cost? Companies had already priced in the new tax rates which had been well signposted and at 25% the UK will still be competitive.

Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)

 

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