sterling
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“That’s part of the fun,” Van Hulsen says as she brings over a sterling silver ice cream scoop engraved with “There’s nothing wrong with me that ice cream can’t fix” in barely perceptible cursive.
From Los Angeles Times
On paper, it all looks fairly obvious—a team that finished the regular season 14-3 against another 14-3 team, two ascendant quarterbacks, two sterling defenses.
U.K. government bond yields rose and sterling fell amid reports that an independent lawmaker is poised to step down and open the way for a potential challenge to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The threat of a more menacing trade war provided support for the euro, sterling and other European currencies, while the U.S. dollar — already under pressure — fell on Monday, a public holiday in the U.S.
From MarketWatch
Stock futures duly fell, the implied yield on 10-year Treasury futures rose and gold prices jumped, while the dollar fell against the euro and sterling.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
