Caroline Hepker
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The other two by-elections are in the Scottish seats of Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry.
OK, those are our top stories.
Did you watch the footy last night?
Did you stay up late this year?
Yeah, OK.
I get it.
Me too.
I love it.
OK.
Yeah, seeing plenty of flags around there, of course.
Many people watching it.
Right.
Let's think about the markets, though, this morning.
because actually maybe people in the UK will be cheered by this, that the labour market is holding up a little bit better than expected, this according to the data that we just broke for you a few minutes ago.
And this comes just hours ahead of the Bank of England's interest rate decision.
You've got unemployment slipping to 4.9%.
So that's of note.
This, as we see, stock futures for the UK for the FTSE 100 sinking seven tenths of 1%.
US stocks 50 futures are down by four tenths of 1%, even though we saw European shares hitting a fresh record high yesterday.
NASDAQ futures are up more than 1%.