Abe and May holding a joint press conference after their talks 31 Aug
- UK is in the midst of great change
- departure from EU has to be successful
- Brexit talks have to provide transparency and Japan has been promised that by UK
- Japanese companies making great contribution to UK economy
May:
- agreed ambitious programme of working with Japan to improve bilateral relations]
- will build closest, freest trading relationship with Japan for when UK leaves EU
- Britain will stand with Japan in defending the international rules based system
- Japanese investments in UK represent a vote of confidence
Or just good business sense.
Peace, love and vested interest alive and well in Japan as May prepares to leave.
Meanwhile GBPUDSD still stuck in a tight band around 1.2920 after yesterday's retreat stemmed by EURGBP supply. which currently sits at 0.9187 after 0.9304 highs on Tuesday.Month- end demand only helping to stem the falls.
May finds all that trade talk a bit dehydrating
