Bloomberg The pound will rally if lawmakers vote to give themselves a say on what happens next with Brexit, strategists say. Sterling was expected to gain about 1 percent if UK parliament approved a motion to allow votes on Brexit options, said Jeremy Stretch, head of Group-of-10 currency strategy at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The move would give lawmakers …

Bloomberg US exchanges handle about 29 percent of global Bitcoin trading — much more than previously thought because some unregulated rivals overseas are inflating their volumes, according to estimates from a firm working to create a crypto exchange-traded fund. The US is the world’s second-largest domicile for exchanges by trading volume after Malta, Bitwise Asset Management found in a report. …

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve may have to put interest-rate increases on hold or even ease monetary policy if economic forecasts for 2019 disappoint, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said. “At the moment, the risks from the downside scenarios loom larger than those from the upside ones,” Evans said in remarks prepared for a speech on Monday in Hong Kong. “If …