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U.S. markets continue to break records but investors remain cautious about the health of the economy ahead of the upcoming earnings season. Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra has come under more criticism, this time from U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin who has voiced concerns it could be used for illicit activities. In the UK, Tory Party leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt harden their Brexit stances but outgoing Chancellor Philip Hammond tells CNBC that he will do what he can to prevent a no-deal Brexit. And we’re live in Brussels where German defence minister Ursula Von Der Leyen faces a knife-edge vote which could make her the European Commission’s next president, or potentially cause an institutional rupture within the bloc should she not succeed.