• Sajid Javid, the business secretary, is in India to open preliminary trade talks. Britain wants to hire lots of trade negotiators for that deal, and others like it. Elsewhere, a senior civil servant said the Treasury had not planned for a vote to leave the European Union, and Britain named its new European Union commissioner.

• British and Continental European stocks are up, and American stock markets have followed their lead. The pound has stabilized (at least temporarily) after reaching 31-year lows, but The Financial Times asks experts how much more it could fall (it is the worst performing major currency of 2016). The weaker currency has apparently already fulfilled one demand of voters who wanted to leave the European Union: Fewer temporary laborers want to work in Britain.

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• Mr. Obama has written a comment piece in The Financial Times, arguing that the trans-Atlantic alliance may be facing its most “important moment” since the end of the Cold War. But he is confident that Britain and the rest of Europe will agree an “orderly transition” to a new relationship. Elsewhere, Belgium’s prime minister told The Financial Times that the European Union will not help Britain out of its “black hole,” and Germany said it would not hold informal talks with Britain over reciprocal migrant rights.

• The Economist considers the arguments around who can invoke Article 50, the clause that will formally set off Britain’s divorce from the bloc. In The Financial Times, Martin Wolf argues leaving the 28-nation bloc will “make almost everybody unhappy,” and Gillian Tett says hope for a quick trans-Atlantic trade deal is misplaced. Jeremy Corbyn, the embattled Labour leader, says the Tories cannot be trusted with any negotiations with the European Union.

• In The Guardian, one commentator argues that the divide between Europeanized middle-class Britons and “marginalized millions” could tear apart the country.