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Pound Sees Further Volatile Trading

Volatile trading sees sterling fluctuate further.

Britain's pound is having a bit of a rollercoaster ride at the moment. We ask London Business School economics professor Richard Portes if currency markets have turned into a casino, or whether they're doing a good job of valuing sterling. Also in the programme, after the exploding smartphone fiasco, the damage to Samsung grows by the day, and it's now warned about its profits. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Stephen Evans in Seoul brings us the latest developments. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Guy Hedgecoe gauges the health of the Spanish economy by focusing on the bar and restaurant sector. Plus research indicates that more than half of American workers don't take all of their holiday entitlement. We find out more from Katie Denis, who runs Project Time Off, an organisation that encourages people to go on leave.

(Picture: Traders at their desks. Picture credit: AFP.)

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