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Cabinet extends customs meetings as Brexiters refuse to back down
Downing Street's inner Brexit cabinet is set to meet again on Tuesday after Prime Minister Theresa May attacking Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, who said he was among a group that would not back down from supporting a hard Brexit, outside the customs union with the Irish border open.
Facebook 'fails to answer' parliamentary committee questions
Facebook failed to answer 39 questions concerning data privacy and fake news posed to the company by parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, the group's chairman said on Tuesday.
NAHB housing market index ticks up in May
Sentiment among US housebuilders improved in May, according to data released on Tuesday.
German investors remain gloomy in April - ZEW
Investors in Germany remained gloomy in May, according to the latest survey from the ZEW Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim.
UK pay growth slows but employment grows
Growth in British wages slowed in March, official data showed on Tuesday, but employment expanded at the best quarterly rate for more than two years and the squeeze on real incomes eased as pay growth matched inflation.