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Post by Dweenimus on Jun 24, 2016 7:19:13 GMT
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Post by Rickster on Jun 24, 2016 7:46:20 GMT
Message from my mate who works in the financial sector, been at work since 7 - says "buy as much petrol as you can - it will be going up"
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Post by wannabe on Jun 24, 2016 8:32:14 GMT
I see the £ is down 6% against the dollar already lol, but it has bounced from its $1.32 bottom - Clearly I'm no market expert but I reckon things will recover a bit more and settle slightly down from what they were, it's going to be months until anything definite is known with regards to the way forward, so confidence will remain steadily unsteady, if that makes sense lol
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Post by joeytalent on Jun 24, 2016 9:27:29 GMT
I see the £ is down 6% against the dollar already lol, but it has bounced from its $1.32 bottom - Clearly I'm no market expert but I reckon things will recover a bit more and settle slightly down from what they were, it's going to be months until anything definite is known with regards to the way forward, so confidence will remain steadily unsteady, if that makes sense lol It's not just sterling that's down, look at the share prices for all the banks and home builders. Those probably won't bounce back as quickly as sterling, so if you have a pension that uses any of them as an option you can expect less return from it. |
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Post by atlex on Jun 24, 2016 9:44:43 GMT
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Post by Ptichka on Jun 24, 2016 10:33:04 GMT
Canoe.
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Post by wannabe on Jun 24, 2016 12:25:39 GMT
I see the £ is down 6% against the dollar already lol, but it has bounced from its $1.32 bottom - Clearly I'm no market expert but I reckon things will recover a bit more and settle slightly down from what they were, it's going to be months until anything definite is known with regards to the way forward, so confidence will remain steadily unsteady, if that makes sense lol It's not just sterling that's down, look at the share prices for all the banks and home builders. Those probably won't bounce back as quickly as sterling, so if you have a pension that uses any of them as an option you can expect less return from it. I fully expect my pension to be worth the square root of Canoe all by the time I get to retirement age - the current retirees on Final Salary pensions, or who have been fortunate enough to have lived through and benefitted from the large amounts of growth that we've gone through in the latter half of the 20th Century, are probably the last to actually have the ability to retire and not be forced to keep working till they drop dead! |
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Post by joeytalent on Jun 24, 2016 12:27:17 GMT
Indeed. Everything is Canoeed. To Canada!
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Post by AutotestAddict on Jun 24, 2016 17:07:14 GMT
Well. I'm off to Scotland before they throw a wall up and England and Wales are left on their tod saying how they are going to make 'Britain' great again.
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Post by myothercarsa2cv on Jun 25, 2016 22:58:46 GMT
I erred on the side of in, but I really don't think it'll be as bad as people think, if notice to leave is even served (no guarantee it will be, politicians are notoriously flakey)...
It was actually quite hilarious at work, people running around like mad trying to work out what the hell was going on. Me, I had a cup of tea and had a good time listening to the slightly-younger-than-me-young'uns tell me about how the end of the world was nigh and that the referendum was unjust and democracy doesn't work and and and... No point stressing about something you can't change. People need to go with the flow more.
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Post by atlex on Jun 25, 2016 23:19:52 GMT
Where I work it was 99.3% remain.... I practically work at a highly progressive company - if "progressive == remain". Progressives want everyone to feel good, more world peace, no guns, etc. and good coffee and cool tech. I love those things  Shows just how out of touch I am with my colleagues, and if the poll here is anything to go by, how "relatively normal" you lot are... Saddest thing is how all the remainers are bitching about how old people are unpersons, and then not thinking "switzerland or norway" when they start imagining some dumb prarrie canoe about how it will work. both those countries are awesome to live in. britain won't get any worse. and yes there will be stupid racists, but there always will be  |
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Post by Horney on Jun 26, 2016 6:10:31 GMT
^^^^^ top post.
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Post by joeytalent on Jun 26, 2016 7:08:22 GMT
The Switzerland / Norway argument is flawed. Those countries have grown outside the EU from the start, not voted to leave it. By the same token, you could argue that Switzerland has the highest suicide rate in Europe because it hasn't joined the EU.
Just because they survive (and flourish) outside the EU, doesn't mean the UK will.
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Post by Rickster on Jun 26, 2016 7:53:37 GMT
I travel often to Switzerland for work and have been to Norway.
Both are very very very expensive, Switzerland also is a strange landlocked, alpine country that has some draconian laws (particularly around car ownership and driving.) Not very UK like.
In Oslo I was amazed also at the large non-European immigrant population!! Go figure
Those 2 countries are nothing like the UK and I hope for our sakes, not a model for post EU Britain.
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Post by Rickster on Jun 26, 2016 8:10:23 GMT
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le sigh
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