‘Rollercoaster’ week ahead for sterling and Irish shares and businesses

Stock markets on both sides of the Irish Sea are bracing for a week of high political drama at Westminster, which may decide whether Britain is set to crash out of the EU at the end of October.

Sterling, however, traded little changed at 90.34 pence yesterday. The UK currency had slid mid-week when Boris Johnson engineered a suspension of the UK parliament in a bid to stymie MPs who plan to outlaw his threat of a no-deal Brexit at Halloween.