Article 5JN42 Stocks up, dollar down after May’s US jobs report – as it happened

Stocks up, dollar down after May’s US jobs report – as it happened

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Graeme Wearden
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Germany's finance minister, Olaf Scholz, is also optimistic that the G7 will agree an historic tax agreement.

Reuters has the details:

German finance minister Olaf Scholz said he was confident that Group of Seven (G7) talks would end in an agreement on global taxation that would change the world.

These are very successful talks, we are making progress and I'm absolutely confident that we will get agreements today and tomorrow, and we will be able to have a very clear message on global corporate taxation," he told the BBC following the first day of G7 finance ministers' meeting in London.

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