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FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 17, 2007 file photo, a chart shows slave trade records, on display at the new International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, England. Britain’s largest companies have promised to offer funds to benefit projects assisting minorities in the latest sign of Britain’s reckoning with its role in the slave trade. Insurance giant Lloyd’s of London and pub chain Greene King made the pledges after they were named in a University College database of firms involved in the slave trade, it was reported on Thursday, June 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson, File)

Bank of England says sorry for slave links as UK faces past

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Builders work on ascaffolding in London, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. After the easing of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, most construction companies have restarted their business but official figures show that the British economy shrank by a colossal 20.4% in April, the first full month that the country was in its lockdown. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK’s recession ‘less bad’ than feared, Bank of England

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

European Central Bank hands out 1.3 trillion euros in loans

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

A man rides bicycle past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 and other Asian index at a securities firm in Tokyo Thursday, June 18, 2020. Shares fell Thursday in Asia after another day of wobbly trading on Wall Street Wednesday, as markets ease off the accelerator following their big rally. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Asian stocks mixed amid concern over coronavirus hotspots

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

People walk on Oxford Street, in London, Wednesday June 17, 2020, as further coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted in England. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

More stimulus expected as UK inflation drops to 4-year low

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

Thursday’s Sports in Brief

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Tottenham borrows $220M; EPL clubs settle more restart plans

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 2, 2020 file photo, European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, right, speaks with the British Prime Minister's Europe adviser David Frost during the start of the first round of post -Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, at EU headquarters in Brussels. Slowed by the coronavirus pandemic and whipped up by a British-imposed deadline, talks between the EU and the UK on a future relationship in the wake of Brexit are struggling to make significant progress. A third negotiation session is drawing to a close on Friday, May 15, 2020 but so far, just over 100 days after the official exit of the UK from the EU, fundamental gaps still exist. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Bank of England reminds banks of ‘no deal’ Brexit risk

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2020 file photo, the National Assembly stands in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition lawmakers in Venezuela quietly agreed on the second week of April 2020, to pay themselves a $5,000 a month when they approved special $100 bonuses for doctors and nurses battling the coronavirus, a large payout for a nation where most workers are scraping by on couple of dollars a month, according to people involved in the process. (AP Photo/Andrea Hernandez Briceño, File)

Sources: Guaido allies take slice of first Venezuela budget

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

The display board with the curve of the DAX photographed behind a pictogram for a fire extinguisher in the trading room of the Stock Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, March 12, 2020. This was again triggered by concerns about the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

Global economic coordination not happening in virus crisis

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

Empty chairs and tables are lined up outside a restaurant in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, Monday, March 9, 2020. Italy took a page from China’s playbook Sunday, attempting to lock down 16 million people — more than a quarter of its population — for nearly a month to halt the relentless march of the new coronavirus across Europe. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte signed a quarantine decree early Sunday for the country’s prosperous north. Areas under lockdown include Milan, Italy’s financial hub and the main city in Lombardy, and Venice, the main city in the neighboring Veneto region. (Anteo Marinoni/LaPresse via AP)

Facing recession, Europe grasps for ways to limit damage

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

People wearing face masks stand in Piccadilly Circus, London, Saturday, March 7, 2020. A man in his early 80s has become the second person to die in the UK after testing positive for the coronavirus. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

UK interest rates cut, funds freed up to ease virus impact

By JILL LAWLESS and PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England attends the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Report news conference in the City of London, Thursday Jan. 30, 2020. The Bank of England on Thursday opted against cutting interest rates after a run of fairly firm economic data in the past week eased fears about a dramatic slowdown in the British economy. (Jonathan Brady/Pool via AP)

UK rates held as Brexit clarity shores up economic surveys

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

UK inflation at lowest since late 2016, stokes rate cut talk

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday Feb. 25, 2019 file photo, Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority Andrew Bailey speaks at a press conference at the Bank of England in London. The British government has named Andrew Bailey, head of the U.K.’s finance watchdog, as the next governor of the Bank of England, and will replace current governor Mark Carney on March 16, 2019. (Kirsty O'Connor/Pool via AP, File)

Andrew Bailey to succeed Carney as Bank of England governor

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England speaks at a Bank of England Financial Stability Report Press Conference, in London, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth,pool)

Bank of England audio feed ‘misused’ by hedge funds

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

UK inflation bolsters view central bank will not cut rates

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

Britain's union flag flies from the Victoria Tower at parliament in London, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. Newly elected lawmakers are convening at parliament Monday following the Dec. 12 general election. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

UK financial system seen as resilient to Brexit, trade wars

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A currency trader holds a phone at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Asian stocks are mostly lower after a meandering day of trading left U.S. stock indexes close to their record highs. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Global stocks turn higher as China says tariff war may ease

By PENNY YI WANG - Associated Press

A pro-Brexit supporter demonstrates with anti-Brexit protesters behind him outside the Houses of Parliament on the final day of the lawmakers sitting before the start of the general election campaign in London, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Bank of England warns over global economic hit to UK

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press