The United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss has dropped a plan to reduce taxes for the highest earners, giving some much-needed respite for the battered pound.
The rout in the financial market resulting from the U.K. government’s spending plan “suggests incompetence,” billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio, said in a series of tweets.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the United States was monitoring developments in Britain after the government announced a fiscal program that dragged the pound to a record low against the dollar.
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers has expressed his delight at the International Monetary Fund urging the United Kingdom to re-evaluate its unprecedented tax cuts.
The iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF (NYSE: EWU) traded lower by another 0.8% on Monday and is now down 7.5% overall in the last five days as investors continue to react to