Pound to Dollar X-Rate Crashes Monday, GBP/USD @ 1.20 Now Forecast as UK Seen Entering Recession

The UK economy is headed for recession say a number of analysts, something that will ensure the headline GBP to USD exchange rate remains under pressure for some time.

• "we expect cable to fall into the mid-1.2000’s in the second half of this year" - Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi.
• "We would, however note that sharp sell-offs in GBP have historically proved short-lived." - Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
• 1.20 is worst-case scenario say CIBC Markets
• 1.30 appears to be first major level of support

Published By - poundsterlinglive.com- Updated Monday, 27 June 2016 13:21

Taylor Swift photographed kissing Tom Hiddleston

The pop princess of the music industry and the baddest man in the Marvel universe are apparently pretty cozy.

Taylor Swift, 26, and Tom Hiddleston, 35, who is best known for his role as Marvel villain Loki, were photographed kissing, holding hands, and walking on a beach with one another.

The scoop came courtesy of The Sun, a popular tabloid paper in Britain.

The photos surfaced just two weeks after Swift and her long-time boyfriend, Calvin Harris called it quits.

The Sun published photos of the pair on its web site around 5 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday. The cover of its Thursday print edition heralds it as a "WORLD EXCLUSIVE."
It also came with the pretty clever headline, "TINKER TAYLOR SNOG A SPY," a play on the miniseries and 2011 film, "Tinker Tailor Solider Spy."

The paper said the photos were taken on a beach in Westerly, Rhode Island, on Tuesday afternoon.
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Published By - cnn.com- Updated 1555 GMT (2355 HKT) June 16, 2016

Wales vs England, Match 16: Gareth Bale plays star role in battle of Britain (European Championship)

Thursday as the all-British clash between England and Wales and the old rivals Germany and Poland at Euro 2016 day high tension.

Fears of a repeat of violence that marred England's 1-1 draw against Russia in Marseille last weekend saw action against participants of the alcohol sales with 50,000 fans are expected to descend on the northern French town of Lens.

On the pitch, all eyes are on whether superstar Gareth Bale can live up to his claim that Wales have (more passion) and that no English player could even get in Chris Coleman's side.

Bale shone as Wales won their first ever match in the finals of the European Championship 2-1 over Slovakia with Real Madrid ACE střílejícího home a trademark free kick.




Slovakia's 2-1 win against Russia on Wednesday means Wales can guarantee first place in Group B and put England on the brink of elimination with a victory.

England boss Roy Hodgson was ready to fend off the Bale's comments when called before the world ' richest player (irreverent) his team.

It's just a matter of total indifference to me, because none of the Welsh players are available to play for England, said Hodgson.

However, former Liverpool manager insisted that he does not welcome the additional hype created by the battle of Britain.

Derby atmosphere, that's great, he said.

It is a game between the brothers, if you like. Adds spices, adds interest. That's something which I can only welcome. If anything, it increases opportunity rather than reduces it.

Hodgson could turn to firepower Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge, or hero Leicester City's fairytale Premiership triumph Jamie Removed After England did not accept a number of chances against the Russians.

Poland believes that it may undermine the world champions in Paris in the battle to Top Group C, after their 81-year-old is waiting to beat Germany in qualifying.

Victory on both sides almost certainly seal a place in the knockout stage after Poland saw off Northern Ireland and Germany beat Ukraine in their opening games.

Superstar Polish striker Robert Lewandowski comes on a number of his teammates Bayern Munich as Germany, to make an emotional return to the Stade de France just seven months after he was captured in last November's attacks in the French capital.

Poles do not intend to go easy on Joachim Loew's men, although he lived in the shadow of the Germans ' to a 2-0 victory in Warsaw in the 19th century. the meeting between the parties in October 2014.

We respect the opponents, but no one is afraid, said Poland coach Adam Nawałka.

It was an important step in our progression to play better and better.

Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neil wants more grit from his party for what he called (final match) against Ukraine, who want to stay in the race to reach the last 16.

Northern Ireland's 12-match unbeaten run ended with defeat to Poland in their European Championship debut.

We need to bring the ugly side to our game tomorrow night, said O'Neil.

We have to treat this as the final of the Cup, because we know the importance of the three points.

Northern Ireland's fans also plan to pay tribute to the fans, Darren Rodgers, 24, who died in Nice on Monday after the collapse of a balcony with aplausem Froma restaurant in the 24-minute in Lyon.

As opposed to getting to be history, Kyrie and LeBron unleash noteworthy exertion

OAKLAND, Calif - On the grounds of the Old School, they will go out mimeographed duplicates of the container score from Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals and point to this as a minute that the reliable ways won, that inside beat outside and that the star framework stayed in place.

The Golden State Warriors spent the greater part of the previous two years subverting those enduring NBA truths, sprinkling in 3-pointers and sending LeBron James to a great many defeats on numerous evenings when he was the best player on the court. Not in Game 5. Not when James controlled the floor with 41 focuses, 16 bounce back, seven helps, three takes and three blocked shots - owning or sharing the diversion high sums in each of those classes. What's more, not when Kyrie Irving was the following best player - more important in the final quarter, really - with 41 purposes of his own.

James called Irving's amusement "likely one of the best exhibitions I've ever seen live." LeBron's visual history would need to incorporate his own particular 45-point, 15-bounce back, 73 percent shooting Game 6 in Boston in 2012 to keep his first title keep running in Miami alive. That despite everything one positions higher for its solitary glory; Dwyane Wade was the Heat's next-most elevated scorer that night with 17 focuses.

Monday night was the first run through a couple of colleagues went for 40 or more focuses in the same NBA Finals diversion. Also, now the Cavaliers still have any expectations of another noteworthy accomplishment: turning into the primary group to return from a 3-1 deficiency to win the Finals.

It helped this wasn't the very same Warriors group that won three of the initial four diversions in this arrangement. Draymond Green served his one-amusement suspension for surpassing the blatant foul focuses limit in the playoffs for his whack at James close to the end of Game 4. Without him, the Warriors were lost on protection and couldn't go to the lineup design highlighting him at focus that had wreaked devastation on the association since a year ago's Finals.

The Warriors were abused inside all through the diversion. Cleveland scored 46 focuses in the paint, besting the Warriors' 42 focuses scored on 3-pointers. Brilliant State plainly missed Green's capacity to give edge insurance and even his hollering, with Warriors mentor Steve Kerr bemoaning a few guarded correspondence breakdowns. Curry called Green the "middle defender" on guard.

For whatever length of time that we're making cross-sport correlations, we should examine the quarterbacking work LeBron did. He reviewed the safeguard in the second from last quarter, found the jumbles against the little lineup and utilized the Warriors' overcompensation further bolstering his good fortune.

Six of his helps came in the second from last quarter. He may fake the go inside, draw the guards and go back to a trailing Irving for a totally open 3-pointer. On the other hand toss a hurl to Tristan Thompson against the overmatched James Michael McAdoo for a foul and free toss.

James' bounce shot was the most astonishing. The Warriors left him to shoot, and he found a beat, to the point he even made a fallaway, challenged 3-pointer. By then, he had the same number of 3-point bushel as Curry at four, which was fourfold James' normal for the playoffs.

Curry was underneath normal, missing 13 of his 21 shots and 9 of 14 3-pointers. Klay Thompson made 6 of 18 3-pointers in the primary half yet went 0-for-5 in the second half.

At the point when the Warriors would have liked to depend on their unrivaled profundity, they didn't have at the top of the priority list playing Brandon Rush, Anderson Varejao, McAdoo, Leandro Barbosa and Marreese Speights to finish off an amusement in which they'd fallen miserably behind.

The Warriors didn't get the opportunity to treat their fans to a title festivity at home. They didn't rescue Green for his unreasonable lack of foresight. They didn't keep away from their secretly dreaded situation of misery a harm in a now-augmented arrangement.

Also, the element that the old educators continued demanding would get them - the dependence on the 3-point shot - went to the fore, too. The gathering was crossed out, the transformation was stopped and the future stayed there.

This was a tribute to the past, directly down to the pair of vintage LeBron pursue down pieces. The Cavaliers returned, and along these lines, their season stays in the current state.

Hillary Clinton secures Democratic presidential selection, by AP check

A 'burst of a minute ago backing from superdelegates' seems to put Clinton over the edge to wind up the primary female presidential candidate of a noteworthy gathering

Hillary Clinton has crossed the limit of 2,383 representatives expected to secure the Democratic presidential assignment, turning into the primary lady in American history to be the presidential chosen one of a noteworthy gathering, the Associated Press reported late Monday.

The accomplishment, from an "a burst of a minute ago backing from superdelegates", as per the AP, was instantly challenged by the opponent battle of Bernie Sanders, which contended that Clinton had not achieved the essential focus through promised appoints alone.

Sanders representative Michael Briggs named the report "a race to judgment" that "tallies superdelegates that the Democratic National Committee itself says ought not be checked on the grounds that they haven't voted". Addressing MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday evening.




Clinton, who has amassed around 3 million more votes than Sanders in the choosing rivalry and has a lead of around 300 promised delegates, has contended that superdelegates – senior gathering authorities not bound to voting results in any state – would not relinquish her as once huge mob. There did not give off an impression of being any such development forthcoming.

Amid his own appearance on the same system, Hillary Clinton's battle supervisor Robby Mook said the news was "extremely energizing" yet emphasized that she was not underestimating anything in front of Tuesday's essential challenges.

"Hillary made a promise toward the start of this crusade she's going to battle for each and every vote, battle for each and every agent. I think the confirmation is in the outcomes," Mook said.

At an occasion in California, news that Clinton had secured the selection broke while the previous secretary of state was talking at her penultimate essential crusade rally. In the event that she definitely realized that she had achieved the enchantment number of representatives, she didn't straightforwardly recognize it in front of an audience – saying only that "as indicated by the news, we are on the precarious edge of a noteworthy minute".

Clinton struck out a few times at the hypothetical Republican chosen one for president, saying that she "can't hold up" to face off regarding Trump.But she didn't say Sanders once in her comments. Rather, she called for solidarity by and large terms, saying: "Abraham Lincoln said a house partitioned can't stand, and he was correct."

Clinton seemed to have gathered no less than two dozen superdelegate responsibilities late on Monday, in the wake of moving to 2,360 agents in challenges throughout the weekend in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

Clinton had said that she anticipated that would clear the "memorable" obstacle making her the main female presidential candidate of a noteworthy political gathering at some point on Tuesday evening, after results started to roll in from Democratic challenges in six states.

Clinton shows up greatly prone to store up a dominant part of swore agents on Tuesday, regardless of the fact that she fails to meet expectations the surveys. With 1,812 swore appoints as of now in her corner, she is only 214 shy of the imprint, with around 700 representatives to be granted Tuesday.

She had been broadly anticipated that would announce triumph in the general race in the wake of voting in California, New Jersey, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and New Mexico, where around 700 representatives altogether in question.

Obama, who still holds extraordinary influence in the Democratic party, is required to embrace Clinton in the coming days, and surrogates have been set up to commute home the case that Sanders ought to step aside to give Clinton a chance to concentrate on the general decision battle against Trump.

The hopeful herself made her most grounded sign yet that she trusted Sanders ought to surrender the battle prior on Monday, when she drew an immediate examination with her choice to yield to Barack Obama in 2008.Clinton struck out a few times at the hypothetical Republican candidate for president, saying that she "can't hold up" to talk about Trump.But she didn't specify Sanders once in her comments. Rather, she called for solidarity by and large terms, saying: "Abraham Lincoln said a house separated can't stand, and he was correct."

Clinton had said that she anticipated that would clear the "memorable" obstacle making her the primary female presidential chosen one of a noteworthy political gathering at some point on Tuesday evening, after results started to roll in from Democratic challenges in six states.

Clinton shows up to a great degree liable to store up a dominant part of promised agents on Tuesday, regardless of the fact that she fails to meet expectations the surveys. With 1,812 promised designates right now in her corner, she is only 214 shy of the imprint, with around 700 representatives to be recompensed Tuesday.

The planning, for Clinton, was not perfect. The Democratic leader's battle had a choreographed plan to make a case for the designation, incorporating a triumph party in New York booked for Tuesday night.

She had been broadly anticipated that would pronounce triumph in the general race subsequent to voting in California, New Jersey, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and New Mexico, where around 700 representatives altogether in question.

Obama, who still holds incredible influence in the Democratic party, is required to support Clinton in the coming days, and surrogates have been set up to commute home the case that Sanders ought to step aside to give Clinton a chance to concentrate on the general race crusade against Trump.

The competitor herself made her most grounded sign yet that she trusted Sanders ought to yield the battle prior on Monday, when she drew an immediate correlation with her choice to surrender to Barack Obama in 2008.

"Tomorrow is eight years to the day after I pulled back and supported then-congressperson Obama," she said. "I trusted it was the best thing to do. Regardless of what contrasts we had in our long crusade, they could not hope to compare to the distinctions we had with the Republicans."

Clinton was for some time considered the mind-boggling most loved in the race however Sanders' underdog battle rose as a genuine risk in the fall as he joined grassroots vitality with a memorable raising money exertion speaking to little benefactors. With a virtual tie in Iowa and an avalanche win in New Hampshire, Sanders quickly resembled a danger to wrest the assignment from the previous secretary of state. Be that as it may, after a tight misfortune in Nevada took after by a victory rout in South Carolina, the Vermont congressperson was not able make up for lost time again to Clinton.

In any case, Clinton was never ready to secure Sanders' guerilla crusade. The Vermont representative could counter misfortunes in the Super Tuesday races on 1 March by winning many caucuses in a perfect sorting out exertion drove by veteran agent Brendan Summers. The outcome was a teeter-totter race where Sanders could win sufficiently only to stay reasonable while his crevice in swore delegates kept on developing.

In San Francisco, where Bernie Sanders was get ready for a noteworthy rally before the Golden Gate span, word spread through the group who shared news reports of Clinton winning the selection on their telephones.

Dissatisfaction was on the characteristics of supporters who had touched base to witness a rally denoting the crescendo of his crusade just to be met with new reports recommending it was, to all expectations and purposes, over.

A few demanded the race was not yet over and said their competitor ought to furrow on to the July tradition in the trust of persuading superdelegates to switch sides. Numerous scrutinized the thought of a decision being called by a news organization and raised the likelihood of connivance.