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Treasury papers reveal Black Wednesday losses

UK Treasury papers released on Wednesday showed that the cost of intervention in the currency market during the period before Britain's "Black Wednesday" exit from the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992 were £3.3bn, according to the Treasury's estimates in 1997.

The 200 pages of documents about the UK's humiliating exit from the ERM disclosed a net "opportunity cost" of £3.3bn and said the Government also lost £800m in reserves trying to support the pound between April and September. But the losses

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