Investors Chronicle:
Equities after Brexit
24 June 2016
... So, which of these explanations applies to the post-Brexit drop in UK shares? We have two reasons to hope the fall is temporary. One is simply that prices have fallen so far. As I write, the FTSE 250 is down by ten per cent since Thursday: this is a better gauge of domestically-oriented share prices than the FTSE 100, which is dominated by multinationals some of which have little exposure to the UK economy. This is greater than even the most pessimistic economists' assessment of the long-term impact of Brexit upon GDP - the Centre for Economic Performance's estimate of a nine per cent hit. (Most economists estimate the impact will be only around half this: the NIESR, for example, puts this cost at 2.7-3.7 per cent.)
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