SWIFT cross-border transactions in the single currency have nosedived to three-year lows The use of the euro for international settlements declined to its lowest level in three years last month, Bloomberg reported this week, citing data from SWIFT.

Frustration over a paralysis of government in Belfast has led to a political shift at the polls, experts say Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has become the largest political force in Northern Ireland’s local government after it secured significant gains in council elections to surge past the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). The outcome is being…

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