Inside the rumble in India’s coding jungleSterling slipped 0.8% to $1.3408 after several European countries closed their borders to the UK as the country entered a tougher lockdown to fight a new strain of coronavirus.Prime Minister Boris Johnson will chair an emergency response meeting on Monday to discuss international travel and the flow of freight in and out of Britain.In the United States, Republican US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said an agreement had been reached by congressional leaders on a roughly $900 billion covid-19 relief bill.The news saw futures for the S&P 500 jump at first, only to fade back to flat as the morning progressed MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dithered either side of flat.