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It’s Wednesday morning and UK stocks are set to gain, the day after hotter-than expected US inflation figures knocked investor sentiment to wipe out London’s earlier rallies on Tuesday.
Brent crude prices are rising slightly this morning though they still remain near ten-week lows. In the US, the newly-powerful Democrats are pushing for an end to the Iran war, though they failed to impeach defence secretary Pete Hegseth overnight.
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