Spreadex Market Update

FTSE dragged lower



The FTSE 100 has been dragged lower during today’s session as turmoil surrounding the unprecedented bank tax in Cyprus grows. Banking shares have been hit particularly hard with RBS and Barclays trading down around 5 percent. European shares have been broadly affected with the Euro falling against its rivals.

 

The levy, which has yet to be approved by the Cypriot parliament, is the first of its kind in the euro zone, although market fears of contagion remained in check as investors were of the view the tax was unlikely to be applied in larger countries.

 

Despite increasing calls for a review on policy, chancellor George Osborne is set to announce that his Conservative party intends to stick to austerity.  Monetary policy may garner most of the attention amid signs that he plans tweak the Bank of England's inflation-fighting remit to spur an economy once again threatened with recession. Osborne said on Sunday there was no alternative to austerity, and that slowing deficit reduction would put Britain at risk of the same fate as Cyprus

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